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What about typology is useful for language documentation?

  • Nikolaus P. Himmelmann EMAIL logo
From the journal Linguistic Typology

Abbreviations

1/2

1st/2nd person

gen

genitive

loc

locative

sg

singular.

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Received: 2016-7-13
Revised: 2016-9-21
Published Online: 2016-12-23
Published in Print: 2016-12-1

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