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THE COMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE USE OF LEXICAL UNITS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

Dale Brown*
Affiliation:
Kanazawa University
Jeffrey Stewart
Affiliation:
Tokyo University of Science
Tim Stoeckel
Affiliation:
University of Niigata Prefecture
Stuart McLean
Affiliation:
Momoyama Gakuin University
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dale Brown, Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa-ken, 〒 920-1192Japan. E-mail: dbrown@staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.

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Critical Commentary
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