Mainly the same or mostly different? : A corpus study of the level of synonymity between the adverbs mainly, mostly, chiefly and principally

The purpose of this paper is to examine the adverbs mainly, mostly, chiefly and principally for their level of synonymity. Dictionaries commonly lists synonyms to their main entries without providing information about commonality, contexts or level of formality or even sample sentences. More often t...

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Main Author: Persson, Christina
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten 2009
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4448