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. Information status and noncanonical word order in English [Studies in Language Companion Series, 40]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 19981998. xii + 314 pp. including index and bibliography. ISBN 90 272 3043 9NLG 138.001 55619 926 0USD 69.00
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