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Review published In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 8:2 (2003) ► pp.313–322

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Hans-Jörg Schmid. English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells: From Corpus to Cognition [Topics in English Linguistics, 34]. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, (2000). xii + 452 pp.

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Published online: 6 January 2004
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