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Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic VariationEdited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 9] 2002
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Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 9] 2002
► pp. 73–90
4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus
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