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Magnus Huber & Mikael Parkvall (eds.). Spreading the Word: The Issue of Diffusion Among the Atlantic Creoles
[Westminster Creolistics Series, 6]. London: The University of Westminster Press, 1999. 325 pp. £20.00 pb;. ISBN 1-85919-093-6

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