The relevance of cleft constructions

Multilingua

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 187-198

  Jucker, Andreas H ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 7644226493     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mult.1997.16.2-3.187     Document Type: Article

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