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Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984
Russell S. Tomlin
[Typological Studies in Language 11] 1987
► pp. 281–328

Is basic word order universal?

Marianne Mithun

Published online: 01 January 1987
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.11.14mit

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