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Part I - Corpus Dimensions and the Viability of Methodological Approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2022

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Ole Schützler  and
Julia Schlüter
Ole Schützler
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Universität Leipzig
Julia Schlüter
Affiliation:
Universität Bamberg
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Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics
Comparative Approaches
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