The winner takes it all - Almost: Cumulativity in grammatical variation

Linguistics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 937-971

  Jäger, Gerhard ^a   Rosenbach, Anette ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 33748691178     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LING.2006.031     Document Type: Article

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