The genitive alternation in Chinese and German ESL learners: Towards a multifactorial notion of context in learner corpus research

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 327-356

  Gries, Stefan Th ^a   Wulff, Stefanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genitive alternation; Learner corpus research; Logistic regression; Native speaker

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887431398     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.18.3.04gri     Document Type: Article

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