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Review published In:
Journal of Historical Pragmatics
Vol.
13:2
(2012) ► pp.
337
–
342
◄
previous
Book review
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
https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.13.2.07die
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