4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus

Kennedy, Graeme

doi:10.1075/scl.9.06ken

In:Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 9] 2002
► pp. 73–90

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4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus

Graeme Kennedy | Victoria University of Wellington

Published online: 29 November 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.9.06ken

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