Quotative Use in American English: A Corpus-Based, Cross-Register Comparison

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 222-256

  Barbieri, Federica ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American English; be all; be like; go; quotative; register variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248706452     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424205282667     Document Type: Article

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