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Svenja Kranich, The progressive in Modern English: A corpus-based study of grammaticalization and related changes (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 72). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 276 p. ISBN 978-90-420-3143-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2013

Arja Nurmi
Arja Nurmi*
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School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, 33014 University of Tampere, [email protected]
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 195 - 199
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