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Register Variation and Syntactic Theory
Edited by Diane Massam and Tim Stowell
[Linguistic Variation 17:2] 2017
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Introducing register variation and syntactic theory

| University of California, Los Angeles
| University of Toronto
Published online: 26 January 2018
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