The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach an

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This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-ling

Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP 1988). In Dim

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