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Diachronica
Vol. 31:2 (2014) ► pp.267–278

Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics

A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific

| Australian National University
| University of Western Sydney
| University of Hawai’i at Manoa
| Yale University
| University of California, Santa Barbara
| CNRS LACITO
| Ohio State University
Published online: 5 August 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.31.2.04koc
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