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Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 12:1/2 (1985) ► pp. 198–205
Book review

Uniformitarianism in Linguistics. By T. Craig Christy

T. Craig Christy. Uniformitarianism in Linguistics
. [ Studies in the History of Linguistics, 31]. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publ. Co., 1983. XIII, 139 pp.

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Published online: 01 January 1985
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.12.1-2.17jan
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