The complexities of arguing about complexity

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 182-185

  Kusters, Wouter ^a   Muysken, Pieter ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34248740413     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2001.002     Document Type: Note

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