Lexical Verbs in Academic Discourse: A Corpus-driven Study of Learner Use

Academic Writing: at the Interface of Corpus and Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 193-214

  Granger, Sylviane ^a   Paquot, Magali ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

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