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Thomas Hoffmann, English comparative correlatives: Diachronic and synchronic variation at the lexicon–syntax interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 259.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2020

Robert D. Borsley*
Affiliation:
University of Essex & Bangor University
*
Author’s address: School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG, UK[email protected]

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