Collostructional nativisation in New Englishes: Verb-construction associations in the International Corpus of English

English World-Wide

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-51

  Mukherjee, Joybrato ^a   Th Gries, Stefan ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 68949107476     PISSN: 01728865     EISSN: 15699730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/eww.30.1.03muk     Document Type: Article

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