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A new agenda for corpus linguistics – working with all of the world’s languages.

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A new agenda for corpus linguistics – working with all of the world’s languages. / McEnery, A. M.; Ostler, N.
In: Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4, 12.2000, p. 403-420.

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McEnery AM, Ostler N. A new agenda for corpus linguistics – working with all of the world’s languages. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 2000 Dec;15(4):403-420. doi: 10.1093/llc/15.4.403

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McEnery, A. M. ; Ostler, N. / A new agenda for corpus linguistics – working with all of the world’s languages. In: Literary and Linguistic Computing. 2000 ; Vol. 15, No. 4. pp. 403-420.

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