Syntactic Variation in English: A Global Perspective

The Handbook of English Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 602-624

  Kortmann, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data; Linguistics; Phonological variation; Quantitative studies; Syntactic variations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890628076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753002.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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