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Geoffrey Leech, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith, Change in contemporary English: A grammatical study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxviii + 341. ISBN 978-0-521-86722-I.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2012

Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Elizabeth Closs Traugott*
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Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, CA 94305-2150, USAtraugott@stanford.edu
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 183 - 193
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