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Xinyue Yao, The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 114). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2024. Pp. xvii + 235. ISBN 9789027214430.

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Xinyue Yao, The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 114). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2024. Pp. xvii + 235. ISBN 9789027214430.

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