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In:Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work
Edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria
[Studies in Language Companion Series 220] 2021
► pp. 1–8

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Chapter 1
Building categories in interaction

Theoretical and empirical perspectives

 | University of Bologna
 | University of Pavia
 | University of Turin
Published online: 6 December 2021
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Article outline
  • 1.On categories and categorization within linguistics
  • 2.Aims and scope of the volume
  • 3.The contributions in this volume
  • References
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