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Doris L. Payne (ed.), Pragmatics of word order flexibility. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992. Pp. 320.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Anna Siewierska
Anna Siewierska
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Lancaster University
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , September 1995 , pp. 458 - 463
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