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Winner of the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the mos...

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A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach,...

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Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how ...