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How to tear down the walls that separate linguists: continuing the quest for clarity about general linguistics

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From the journal Theoretical Linguistics

Corresponding author: Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, E-mail:

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Received: 2021-03-29
Accepted: 2021-04-22
Published Online: 2021-09-09
Published in Print: 2021-06-25

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