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Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Semantics and morphosyntactic variation: Qualities and the grammar of property concepts (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 67). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv+171 pages, ISBN 978–0–19–874458–0, GBP 65.00 (hardback); 978–0–19–874459–7, GBP 24.99 (paperback); Open Access at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744580.001.0001/acprof-9780198744580
Acknowledgement
I’d like to register my indebtedness in adjectival and related thinking to friends and acquaintances mentioned here: Emmon Bach (†), D. N. S. Bhat, Larry Hyman, Masha Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Andrej Malchukov, Regina Pustet (†), Jan Rijkhoff, and Leon Stassen.
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