Chapter published in:
Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants
Edited by Antje Dammel, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck
[Studies in Language Companion Series 203] 2018
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Introduction

On the role of reorganisation in long-term variation and change and its theoretical implications

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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.203.01dam
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