Linking adverbials: An across-register corpus study and its implications

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-518

  Liu, Dilin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Distribution pattern; Linking adverbials; Register; Semantic type; Usage pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 65849147208     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.13.4.05liu     Document Type: Article

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