Review published in:
The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives
Edited by Daniela Rossi
[Studies in Language 39:4] 2015
► pp. 1019–1029
Book review

Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov & Edith Moravcsik (editors). Competing motivations in grammar and usage
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxi+445 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-870984-8

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| University of Toronto
Published online: 03 March 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.39.4.09ric
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