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Patricia Carrell, A transformational grammar of Igbo. London: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. vii + 123.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Larry M. Hyman
Affiliation:
Linguistics Programme, Univ. of Southern California
J. O. Skip Robinson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, and Univ. of Ibadan, Nigeria.

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