Review of 'Understanding and teaching reflexive sentences in Spanish': (Luis H. González, Routledge, 2022)

Antonio Fábregas

doi:10.7557/1.11.3.6700

Authors

Antonio Fábregas Department of Language and Culture, University of Tromsø

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/1.11.3.6700

Keywords:

se, structures with se, reflexives, anticausatives, impersonals, language teaching, language learning

Abstract

This is a review of González (2022) book on SE-structures.

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