The divine and the grammarian: Theological disputes in the 17th-century universal language movement

Historiographia Linguistica

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-300

  Poole, William ^a  

^a DOWNING COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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