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15 - An Areal View of Africa

from Part II - Case Studies for Areal Linguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2017

By
Bernd Heine  and
Anne-Maria Fehn
Edited by
Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
Affiliation:
Universität Duisburg–Essen
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The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics , pp. 424 - 445
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Print publication year: 2017

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