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Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 48:2/3 (2021) ► pp.336–343

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Margaret Thomas. Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics. The Engineer and the Collector. Margaret Thomas. New York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2020. 118 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-367-78784-4 22,95 US$

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Published online: 13 April 2022
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