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Studies in LanguageVol. 33:1 (2009) ► pp.241–246
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. Grammars in contact: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. . [Explorations in Linguistic Typology, 4]. xx+355 pp. ISBN 0-19-920783-6
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