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Peter Trudgill. Sociolinguistic typology: Social determinants of linguistic complexity
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxxviii+236 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-960434-0Hardback 978-0-19-960435-7Paperback

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