The localization of global linguistic variants

English World-Wide

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-44

  Buchstaller, Isabelle ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Globalization; Go; Like; Localization; Quotatives; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 40349093505     PISSN: 01728865     EISSN: 15699730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/eww.29.1.03buc     Document Type: Article

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