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Margaret Thomas, Formalism and functionalism in linguistics: The engineer and the collector. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. viii + 118.

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Margaret Thomas, Formalism and functionalism in linguistics: The engineer and the collector. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. viii + 118.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2022

JOSEPH L. SUBBIONDO
JOSEPH L. SUBBIONDO*
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Board of Trustees, California Institute for Human Science, Encinitas, CA, 92024, USA jsubbiondo@gmail.com
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , February 2023 , pp. 223 - 227
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