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Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Emma Moore, Linda Van Bergen & Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), Categories, constructions, and change in English syntax (Studies in English Language 63). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. Pp. xx + 404.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2021

JIAWEI WANG
JIAWEI WANG*
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College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, 361000, P. R. Chinawangjiawei@stu.xmu.edu.cn
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , November 2021 , pp. 915 - 919
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