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Tuija Virtanen: Discourse Functions of Adverbial Placement in English: Clause-Initial Adverbials of Time and Place in Narratives and Procedural Place Descriptions. Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 1992, x + 395 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Kari K. Pitkänen
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Research Unit for Multilingual Language Technology, Department of General Linguistics, P.O. Box 4, FIN-00014University of Helsinki. E-mail kkpitkan@Ling.Helsinki.Fi
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