Simone E. Pfenninger. Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions. A Corpus-based Study
[European University Studies, Series XXI Linguistics, 345]. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. ISBN 978-3-0343-0021-6 369 pp.

Reviewed by

Gabriele Diewald | Leibniz Universität Hannover

Published online: 2 July 2012

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