Historical sociolinguistics: The corpus of early English correspondence

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 2: Diachronic Databases

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 148-171

  Raumolin Brunberg, Helena ^a   Nevalainen, Terttu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230223202_7     Document Type: Chapter

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