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The Were-Subjunctive in British Rural Dialects: Marrying Corpus and Questionnaire Data

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Hardie, A., McEnery, T. The Were-Subjunctive in British Rural Dialects: Marrying Corpus and Questionnaire Data. Computers and the Humanities 37, 205–228 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022657227889

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