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Classification and Naming - Cecil H. Brown, Language and living things: Uniformities in folk classification and naming. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 306.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Roy F. Ellen
Roy F. Ellen
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Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NS, United Kingdom
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Language in Society , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1987 , pp. 123 - 130
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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