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Dialect evidence for the loss of genitive inflection in English1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Juhani Klemola
Juhani Klemola
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School of EnglishUniversity of LeedsLeeds LS2 9JTj.klemola@leeds.ac.uk
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , November 1997 , pp. 349 - 353
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