Introduction

Dossena, Marina

doi:10.1075/ahs.4.002int

In:Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
Edited by Marina Dossena
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 4] 2015
► pp. 1–12

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Introduction

Marina Dossena | University of Bergamo, Italy

Published online: 12 February 2015

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