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Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann, A Construction Grammar of the English language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2024. Pp. xvi + 315. ISBN 9789027214980.

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Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann, A Construction Grammar of the English language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2024. Pp. xvi + 315. ISBN 9789027214980.

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Bastian Bunzeck  and
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Bastian Bunzeck
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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies/Linguistics Department, University of Bielefeld , Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
Stefan Hartmann*
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German Department, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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