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Beavers John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden, The Roots of Verbal Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii + 255

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Beavers John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden, The Roots of Verbal Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii + 255

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2020

Josep Ausensi
Josep Ausensi*
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Author’s address: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge, Carrer Roc Boronat 138 (08010Barcelona), Spainjosep.ausensi@upf.edu
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 203 - 208
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