Diachronic stable structural features

Nichols, Johanna

doi:10.1075/cilt.124.27nic

In:Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993
Edited by Henning Andersen
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 124] 1995
► pp. 337–356

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Diachronic stable structural features

Johanna Nichols

Published online: 18 May 1995

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.124.27nic

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