Agentivity as a determinant of lexico-grammatical variation in L2 academic writing

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 357-390

  Callies, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Advancedness; Agentivity; Inanimate subjects; Lexico grammatical variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887470248     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.18.3.05cal     Document Type: Article

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