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A note on Old English impersonals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

John Anderson
John Anderson
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Department of English Language, University of Edinburgh
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 167 - 177
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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