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. Quantitative approaches to linguistic diversity: commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012. [Benjamins Current Topics, 46]. x+182 pp. ISBN 78 90 272 0265 9
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