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Andrea Moro, A brief history of the verb to be. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 288.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2018

Giosuè Baggio*
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Author’s address: Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway[email protected]

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