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General linguistics and the nature of human language

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From the journal Theoretical Linguistics

Corresponding author: Diana Forker, Caucasus Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany, E-mail:

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Received: 2021-02-02
Accepted: 2021-02-10
Published Online: 2021-09-09
Published in Print: 2021-06-25

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