A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of indefinite article forms in london english

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 297-334

  Gabrielatos, Costas ^a   Torgersen, Eivind Nessa ^a   Hoffmann, Sebastian ^b   Fox, Susan ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

corpus linguistics; ethnicity; indefinite article; linguistic innovation; Multicultural London English; reallocation; sociolinguistics; spoken language; youth language

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649954730     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: 15525457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424209352729     Document Type: Article

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