Historical Linguistics: Problems and PerspectivesCharles Jones Longman Linguistics Library is a series aimed primarily at an undergraduate and postgraduate student readership. It aims to provide a broad view of the subject such as is difficult to obtain exclusively from scholarly journals and monographs. |
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Change and metatheory at the beginning of | 43 |
Typology and reconstruction | 74 |
On the phonetic basis of phonological change 86 | 98 |
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