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Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner †
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 128] 2020
► pp. 193–210

Chapter 8
The Baxtin myth and its historiography

Article outline
  • 1.Prelude: Some remarks on Russian linguistic historiography
  • 2. The authorship of Marxizm and the philosophy of language
  • 3.Coda
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.128.c8
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