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A comment on Harris's ‘From morpheme to utterance’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Robert Levine
Robert Levine*
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Language , Volume 100 , Issue 3 , September 2024 , pp. 573 - 578
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Copyright © 2024 Linguistic Society of America

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My earnest thanks to the editors at Language for guidance and encouragement in the preparation of this commentary, and to Geoff Pullum for some very helpful input along the way. The usual disclaimers apply.

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