The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective

Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 141-166

  Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

English; Genitives; Multivariate; Real time; Standard varieties; Text type; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84970017931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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