Linguistic typology requires crosslinguistic formal categories

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-157

  Newmeyer, Frederick J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE   (Canada)

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EID: 44949240347     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LINGTY.2007.012     Document Type: Review

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