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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-07 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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Language: en
Pages: 492
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-19 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable categories and those which resist transfer. Resistance is illustrated for the unattested emergence of
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