Innovative quotatives - language change or youth-speak? : A corpus-based study of spoken British English
This paper investigates the possible effect of age on quotative variation in spoken British English with focus on the innovative quotative constructions be like and go and the standard construction say. The study is corpus-based and uses the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 as its material. Using...
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Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR)
2019
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79708 |