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Robert R. Ratcliffe. The ‘Broken’ Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1998. Pp. xi + 261. US$89.00 (hardcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Alan S. Kaye
Alan S. Kaye*
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California State University/Fullerton
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , September 1999 , pp. 302 - 306
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1999

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