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Korean Historical Linguistics
[Korean Linguistics 15:2] 2013
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Book review

Ki-Moon Lee & Robert Ramsey. A History of the Korean Language
Ki-Moon Lee & Robert Ramsey. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 336 pp. $119.00 (Hardback).

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| Cornell University, USA and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan
Published online: 21 February 2014
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