Introduction
On the role of reorganisation in long-term variation and change and its theoretical implications
Article outline
- 1.Reorganising grammatical variation
- 2.The reorganisation phenomena studied in this volume
- 3.Insights: Grammatical variation reorganised
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Acknowledgements
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