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Exploring linguistic variation and grammatical complexity in academic writing - Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray, Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Academic Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv + 277. Hardback £55.77, ISBN 9781107009264.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2017

Yunmei Sun
Affiliation:
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Fei Li*
Affiliation:
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Abstract

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Footnotes

This work was supported by National Social Science Fund of China (Grant No.17BYY097).

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