"Creating language anew": Some remarks on an idea of Bernard Comrie's

Linguistics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 853-871

  Perdue, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

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EID: 33747129194     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LING.2006.027     Document Type: Article

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