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Contrasting contrastive approachesGuest-edited by Bart Defrancq
[Languages in Contrast 15:1] 2015
► pp. 155–160
Guest-edited by Bart Defrancq
[Languages in Contrast 15:1] 2015
► pp. 155–160
Book review
. Satzstrukturen im Deutschen und Englischen. Typologie und Textrealisierung [Sentence Structures in German and English. Typology and Textual Realization]. Konvergenz und Divergenz. Sprachvergleichende Studien zum DeutschenBerlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH, 2013. xii + 373 pp. ISBN 978 3 05 006333 1
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