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The myth of the complete sentence – a response to Traugott

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2017

ALEXANDER BERGS
ALEXANDER BERGS*
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Institute of English and American Studies, Osnabrück University, Neuer Graben 40, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany abergs@uni-osnabrueck.de
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This brief response to Elizabeth Closs Traugott's contribution ‘“Insubordination” in the light of the Uniformitarian Principle’ could begin with John Lennon: ‘Imagine there is no. . . sentence.’

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 21 , Special Issue 2: Cognitive approaches to the history of English , July 2017 , pp. 311 - 316
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