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Language Universals: A Survey of Recent Developments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2008

Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie
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Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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Language Teaching , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 219 - 232
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