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17 - A Typology of Switch Reference

from Part II - Typology of Grammatical Categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2017

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John R. Roberts
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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald  and
R. M. W. Dixon
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
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James Cook University, North Queensland
R. M. W. Dixon
Affiliation:
James Cook University, North Queensland
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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology , pp. 538 - 573
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Print publication year: 2017

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