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Norman Blake (ed.), The Cambridge history of the English language: Vol. II, 1066–1476. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 703.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2009

Donka Minkova  and
Robert P. Stockwell
Donka Minkova*
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Robert P. Stockwell*
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
*
Department of EnglishUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, U.S.A.[email protected]
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, U.S.A.[email protected]
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , September 1994 , pp. 528 - 547
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