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Doris L. Payne. The Pragmatics of Word Order: Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages. In the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. Pp. xiv + 298. DM 148,-; US$106.00 (hardcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Matthew S. Dryer*
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo

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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1992

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