Review published in:
Evidentiality in language and cognition
Edited by Lena Ekberg and Carita Paradis
[Functions of Language 16:1] 2009
► pp. 123–134
Book review

Nomi Erteschik-Shir. Information structure: The syntax-discourse interface
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. vii + 246 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-926258-8(hb) 978-0-19-926259-5(pb)

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| University of Santiago de Compostela
Published online: 01 April 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.16.1.07gom
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