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26 - Non-syntactic Sources and Triggers of Syntactic Change

from Part V - Explanations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

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Laurel J. Brinton  and
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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Adam Ledgeway  and
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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax , pp. 556 - 578
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