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Book review

Don Daniels. Grammatical reconstruction: The Sogeram languages of New Guinea
[Studies in Language Change 16]. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. xii + 344 pp. https://​doi​.org​/10​.1515​/9783110616217

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Published online: 12 October 2021
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