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ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 143/144 (2004) ► pp.37–60

The Limits of Variation in Scientific Abstracts – Syntactic and Functional Constraints

| Department of English Heinrich-Heine-Universität
| University of Wisconsin-Madison
Published online: 1 January 2004
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