The search for units of meaning: Sinclair on empirical semantics

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-137

  Stubbs, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

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EID: 62649084541     PISSN: 01426001     EISSN: 1477450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/applin/amn052     Document Type: Article

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