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Benedikt Szmrecsanyi , Grammatical variation in British English dialects: A study in corpus-based dialectometry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xvii+211. 2013 hardback ISBN 9781107003453 and 2015 paperback ISBN 9781107515772.

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Benedikt Szmrecsanyi , Grammatical variation in British English dialects: A study in corpus-based dialectometry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xvii+211. 2013 hardback ISBN 9781107003453 and 2015 paperback ISBN 9781107515772.

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