Andrew R. Linn & Nicola McLelland. Standardization. Studies from the Germanic Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2002. xii + 258 pp. [Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV – Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 235].

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