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30 - Typological Approaches

from Part VI - Models and Approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

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Sonia Cristofaro  and
Paolo Ramat
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Adam Ledgeway  and
Ian Roberts
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Ian Roberts
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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax , pp. 664 - 686
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Print publication year: 2017

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