Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Rodríguez González, Félix; Cannon, Garland

doi:10.1075/cilt.113.26rod

In:English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992
Edited by Francisco Fernández, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 113] 1994
► pp. 261–272

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Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Félix Rodríguez González

Garland Cannon

Published online: 31 March 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.113.26rod

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