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Thomas Brunner, Simplicity and typological effects in the emergence of New Englishes: The noun phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English (Topics in English Linguistics, TiEL 97). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. Pp. xix+341. ISBN 9783110516593 (hardback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2018

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 256 - 262
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