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Article published In: Diachronica
Vol. 31:2 (2014) ► pp.267–278

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Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics

A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific

 | Australian National University
 | University of Western Sydney
 | University of Hawai’i at Manoa
 | Yale University
 | University of California, Santa Barbara
 | CNRS LACITO
 | Ohio State University
Published online: 5 August 2014
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