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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).

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Matthew S. Dryer
Matthew S. Dryer*
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State University of New York at Buffalo
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 82 - 84
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1992

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