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On the Biological Nature of Natural Language and Other Essays Edited by Simeon Romportl & Bohumil Vykypěl ( Travaux linguistiques de Brno, 4).
München: LINCOM EUROPA, 2008. 60 pp. ISBN 978-3-89586-315-8 € 44,70

Reviewed by E. F. K. Koerner
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
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