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Vol. 23:1 (2006) ► pp.206–223

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James A. Matisoff. Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and philosophy of Sino-Tibeto-Burman reconstruction. James A. Matisoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xlii, 750 pp.

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