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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Maria Estling
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Abstract

A corpus-based study of competing prepositional constructions in American and British English

Type
Research Article
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English Today , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 22 - 27
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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