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Linguists and the Official Language Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg*
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Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
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Language , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 579 - 587
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Copyright © 1989 Linguistic Society of America

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