Scottish Language, Issue 16Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997 - Scotland |
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Contents
Periphrastic do in The Complaynt of Scotland | 37 |
Of the Orthographie and Congruitie | 52 |
The Origin of the BePerfect with Transitives | 88 |
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