Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change
✍ Scribed by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemaki, Fred Karlsson
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 375
- Series
- Studies in Language Companion Series
- Edition
- 94
- Category
- Library
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