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13 - Negation

from Part II - Typology of Grammatical Categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2017

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Matti Miestamo
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R. M. W. Dixon
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
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James Cook University, North Queensland
R. M. W. Dixon
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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology , pp. 405 - 439
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  • Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, James Cook University, North Queensland, R. M. W. Dixon, James Cook University, North Queensland
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
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