Exploring subtlety: collocational variation of the definite article in Inner and Outer Circle varieties of English

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Exploring subtlety: collocational variation of the definite article in Inner and Outer Circle varieties of English

Article usage variation is often said to manifest itself in terms of token omission and insertion e.g. American take me to the hospital vs. British take me to Ø hospital. Quantitative evidence, however, can only offer little support for the extensiveness of such variation (e.g. Sand, 2004). Given th...

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Main Author:	Abdul Wahid, Mohd Ridwan
Format:	Proceeding Paper
Language:	English English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	P Philology. Linguistics PE English
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/29122/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29122/1/ICLLICRidwan_Wahid.pptx http://irep.iium.edu.my/29122/2/icllicprogramme_3nov_.pdf

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