Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 374-392

  Urban, Matthias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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