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Frederick J. Newmeyer. 2005. Possible and probable languages: A generative perspective on linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. x + 278. US $45.00 (softcover).

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Frederick J. Newmeyer. 2005. Possible and probable languages: A generative perspective on linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. x + 278. US $45.00 (softcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Marco Nicolis
Marco Nicolis*
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Queen’s University
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 101 - 104
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