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Sten Vikner: Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York/ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, x + 294 pp.

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Sten Vikner: Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York/ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, x + 294 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Alessandro Lenci
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Scuola Normale Superiore, Laboratorio di linguistica, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy. Email: [email protected]
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