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Dede, Keith – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a preposition to express ablative nominal relationships. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Databases, Dialects, Foreign Countries

Carter, Ronald – ELT Journal, 1998
Discusses the evolution and content of CANCODE, an English-language corpus under development at the University of Nottingham (England) designed to reflect current language use, and several related issues: whether the grammar currently taught should be changed to more closely correspond to common usage; whether the native speaker should be the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Data Collection, Databases, English