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Roots of Language

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Roots of language. By DerekBickerton. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1981. Pp. xiii, 351. $24.95.

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Pieter Muysken
Pieter Muysken*
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Language , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 884 - 892
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Copyright © 1983 by Linguistic Society of America

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