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Arguments from language change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Elizabeth Closs Traugott  and
Henry Smith
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Affiliation:
Departments of Linguistics and English, Building 100, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2150, USA.
Henry Smith
Affiliation:
Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , September 1993 , pp. 431 - 447
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