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Download full textOwusu-Ansah, L. K. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 1991
Deviation for native-speaker norms in non-native varieties of English are often regarded as interlanguage features which must either be weeded out through teaching or which the learner will eventually abandon as his competency moves in the direction of the target language. It is argued in this paper that some deviations are motivated by style,…
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