Review published In:
Historiographia LinguisticaVol. 36:1 (2009) ► pp.132–136
Book review
Colonialism and Grammatical Representation: John Gilchrist and the analysis of the ‘Hindustani’ language in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By Richard Steadman-Jones
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