“Agile” and “uptight” genres: The corpus-based approach to language change in progress

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-242

  Hundt, Marianne ^a   Mair, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Language change (grammatical and stylistic); Present day British and American English; Text linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989383921     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.4.2.02hun     Document Type: Article

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