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Edwin L. Battistella, Markedness: the evaluative superstructure of language. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 205.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

William A. Croft
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Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan.

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