Sociolinguistic variation in French computer-mediated communication: A variable rule analysis of the negative particle ne

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 467-491

  Williams, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; French; Negation; Sociolinguistic variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749305182     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.4.02wil     Document Type: Article

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