Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses

Linguistics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 449-470

  Diessel, Holger ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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EID: 19844383162     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ling.2005.43.3.449     Document Type: Review

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