Vernacular universals and angloversals in a typological perspective

Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-53

  Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt ^a   Kortmann, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203883426     Document Type: Chapter

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