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This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal m
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This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discours
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A Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar
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Theoretical studies of Latvian grammar have a great deal to offer to contemporary linguistics. Although traditionally Lithuanian has been the most widely studie