Order out of chaos? The English gender change in the Southwest Midlands as a process of semantically based reorganization

English Language and Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 445-473

  Stenroos, Merja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

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EID: 61149482013     PISSN: 13606743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1360674308002712     Document Type: Review

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