Book review
. Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in comparative linguistics (Edited by) Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi, 453 pp.
Reviewed by
Martha Ratliff | Wayne State University, Detroit
Published online: 14 August 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.20.1.11rat
https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.20.1.11rat
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