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Studies in LanguageVol. 39:1 (2015) ► pp.245–253
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. Nominal classification: a history of its study from the classical period to the present Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2013. [Studies in the history of the language sciences, 121]. xiv+405 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 4612 7
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