Book review
Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato’s Cratylus and modern theories of language By John E. Joseph ( Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 96).
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. viii, 224 pp.

Reviewed by Nicola McLelland
Trinity College, Dublin
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