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An exploration of whether the commercial information tool Factiva® can be of use in research on recent grammatical change in different national varieties of English.
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There are hardly any diachronic corpora of non-metropolitan varieties of English available today. This paper explores an alternative to traditional corpus research for the empirical investigation of the development of such varieties.
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This page is a summary of: Recent quantitative changes in the use of modals and quasi-modals in the Hong Kong, British and American printed press, January 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/scl.67.18noe.
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