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HOW TO SET PARAMETERS: ARGUMENTS FROM LANGUAGE CHANGE. David Lightfoot. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 214. $27.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Lydia White
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McGill University

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