Developing register differentiation: The Latinate-Germanic divide in English

Linguistics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-35

  Bar Ilan, Laly ^b   Berman, Ruth ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE

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EID: 33947203787     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LING.2007.001     Document Type: Article

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