Weisser, M. (2016). Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-based Language Analysis

Wiegand, Viola

doi:10.1075/ijcl.00004.wie

Review published In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 23:2 (2018) ► pp.244–249

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Weisser, M. (2016). Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-based Language Analysis

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Viola Wiegand | University of Birmingham

Published online: 5 October 2018

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.00004.wie

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