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A "big data" approach to recent change in World Englishes

What is it about?

An exploration of whether the commercial information tool Factiva® can be of use in research on recent grammatical change in different national varieties of English.

Why is it important?

There are hardly any diachronic corpora of non-metropolitan varieties of English available today. This paper explores an alternative to traditional corpus research for the empirical investigation of the development of such varieties.

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