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Gabriele Stein, Studies in the function of the passive. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1979. Pp. 249.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Christopher Beedham
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Department of Modern Languages, University of Aston in Birmingham

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