Colonialism and Grammatical Representation: John Gilchrist and the analysis of the ‘Hindustani’ language in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By Richard Steadman-Jones

Joseph, John E.

doi:10.1075/hl.36.1.08jos

Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 36:1 (2009) ► pp.132–136

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Colonialism and Grammatical Representation: John Gilchrist and the analysis of the ‘Hindustani’ language in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By Richard Steadman-Jones

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John E. Joseph | University of Edinburgh

Published online: 6 April 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.1.08jos

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