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Determiners: a class apart

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Roger Berry
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Some problems encountered in the compilation of ‘Collins COBUILD English Guides 10: Determiners and Quantifiers’

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English Today , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 27 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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