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Studies in Language
Vol. 40:2 (2016) ► pp.457–467
Book review

Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Graeme Trousdale. Constructionalization and constructional changes
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. [Oxford Studies in Diachronic & Historical Linguistics, 6]. xvii+278 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 967989 8
andPeter Petré. Constructions and environments: Copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. [Oxford Studies in the History of English, 4]. xiv+295 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 937339 0

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| Canada Institute of Linguistics, Trinity Western University
Published online: 1 July 2016
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