Variation as a window on universals

Linguistic Universals and Language Variation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 128-168

  Tagliamonte, Sali A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agreement; Comparison; Constraints; Dialect; Negation; Northern Subject Rule; Variation, vernacular

Indexed keywords

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DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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