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| | THE IRANIAN: News |
 | | In 1956 he and his wife, Lisbeth, set off for Iran, where they spent three months in Bashakard, an area of the Western Makran that scarcely any European had penetrated. |
 | | Gershevitch made good use of his field-notes on the previously unknown dialects of Bashakard in many publications, though sadly he never found time to write a full account of the Bashkardi language. |
 | | In fact he never published another book, though a volume of collected papers, Philologia Iranica, appeared in 1985. |
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