Older men and younger women: A corpus-based study of quotative use in American English

English World-Wide

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-45

  Barbieri, Federica ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation theory; Age; American English; Be all; Be like; Convergence; Evolutionary psychology; Go; Quotative; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547155402     PISSN: 01728865     EISSN: 15699730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/eww.28.1.03bar     Document Type: Article

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