Construction frequency and reductive change: Diachronic and register variation in Spanish clitic climbing

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-170

  Cacoullos, Rena Torres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 85007974445     PISSN: 09543945     EISSN: 14698021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095439459911202X     Document Type: Article

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