Review published In:
Functions of LanguageVol. 1:1 (1994) ► pp.150–153
Book review
. Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [=Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 9]. xvii + 165 pp. ISBN 0 521 41803 8
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