Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu

Transactions of the Philological Society

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-338

  Marten, Lutz ^a   Kula, Nancy C ^b   Thwala, Nhlanhla ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 51249156184     PISSN: 00791636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2007.00190.x     Document Type: Article

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