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Grammaticalization as Economy. By Elly van Gelderen. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 71). Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004. Pp. xiv, 320. Hardcover. $138.00.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 71 - 84
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