He's like, she's like: The quotative system in Canadian youth

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 493-514

  Tagliamonte, Sali ^a   D'Arcy, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Be like; Grammaticalization; Quotative; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644488179     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2004.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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