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Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen & Bernd Kortmann (eds.). Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast. Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives [Topics in English Linguistics, 33]. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. 475 pp.

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