The Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-102

  Rubin, Aaron D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00044.x     Document Type: Article

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