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Frans Plank, ed. Ergativity: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations. New York: Academic Press. 1979. Pp. xiii + 569.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Matthew S. Dryer*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta

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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1985

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