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Contrasting contrastive approaches
Guest-edited by Bart Defrancq
[Languages in Contrast 15:1] 2015
► pp. 151–154
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Umberto Ansaldo. Contact languages. Ecology and evolution in Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxvii + 257 pp. ISBN 978-0-68253-4

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Published online: 3 April 2015
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