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Towards a history of concept list compilation in historical linguistics

Posted on 31 October 2018 by Johann-Mattis List — 2 Comments

Johann-Mattis List Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena A large proportion of lexical data of the world’s languages is presented in the form of word lists in which a set of concepts was translated into the…

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