Book review
Michel Bréal: The Beginnings of Semantics. Edited and translated by George Wolf.
London: Duckworth, 1991. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1991. 332 pp.

Reviewed by Brigitte Nerlich
University of Nottingham
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