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Paul Friedrich Author

Paul Friedrich is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

The Language Parallax cover

The Language Parallax

Paul Friedrich - Paperback

£14.99

Music in Russian Poetry cover

Music in Russian Poetry

Paul Friedrich - Paperback

£25.10

Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village cover

Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village

Paul Friedrich - Paperback

£23.00

Wild Symmetries cover

Wild Symmetries

Paul Friedrich - Paperback

£8.00

The Tarascan suffixes of locative space: Meaning and morphotactics cover

The Tarascan suffixes of locative space: Meaning and morphotactics

Paul Friedrich - Hardback

£100.00

The Backwards Alphabet Book cover

The Backwards Alphabet Book

Paul Friedrich - Hardback

£14.99