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Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
[Typological Studies in Language 126] 2019
► pp. 1–9

Introduction

Article outline
  • The notion of syntactic complexity
  • Presentation of the book
  • Overview of the papers
  • References
Published online: 4 July 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.126.int
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