Review of Castro-Chao, Noelia. 2021. Argument Structure in Flux: The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire. Bern: Peter Lang.
ISBN: 978-3-034-34189-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b17694
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