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Anna Wierzbicka, Lingua mentalis: the semantics of natural language. London: Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 367.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Alan Cruse
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester.

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