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Language contact: Trojan horse or new potential for cross-fertilization?

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From the journal Linguistic Typology

Acknowledgements

This paper was written with the support of the Language in Interaction consortium funded through Radboud University, Nijmegen.

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Received: 2016-8-31
Revised: 2016-9-25
Published Online: 2016-12-23
Published in Print: 2016-12-1

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