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In:Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
[Varieties of English Around the World G66] 2022
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Earlier North American Englishes

Recent advances and future prospects

 | Uppsala University
 | University of Duisburg-Essen
Published online: 15 July 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g66.01kyt
Article outline
  • 1.Introductory remarks
  • 2.Anglo-American Englishes
  • 3.Focus on varieties
  • 4.The corpus linguistic turn and novel analytical frameworks
  • 5.Canadian English
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • References
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