Review of Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Emma Moore, Linda Van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann eds. 2019. Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

ISBN: 978-1-108-41956-7. htpps:// doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576

Keywords: categories, constructions, syntactic change

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Published
2020-11-05
How to Cite
Fanego, T. (2020). Review of Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Emma Moore, Linda Van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann eds. 2019. Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . Research in Corpus Linguistics, 8(2), 159-175. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.08.02.08