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Erica Garcia: La portée de la variabilité On the basis of two diverse analyses of essentially the same change (the loss of sibi reflexives) in French and Spanish, it is argued that the usual approach to syntactic variation is misguided, and should give way to a cognitive motivation of frequency distributions.
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Erica C. García (1997) studied this question.
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