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Definites in ‘There’-Sentences
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PP Preposing with ‘There’-Insertion
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Linking Relations and Noncanonical Word Order
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Open Propositions and Locative Constituents
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Toward a Unified Theory of Noncanonical Word Order
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Crosslinguistic Extensions
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JB code
slcs.40.30sum
275
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Subsection
30
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Summary of Constraints on Noncanonical Word Order
10
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JB code
slcs.40.31the
280
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Subsection
31
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Theoretical Implications
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JB code
slcs.40.32app
285
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Miscellaneous
32
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Appendix
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JB code
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Miscellaneous
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References
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JB code
slcs.40.34ind
307
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Miscellaneous
34
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Index
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