Exploring subtlety: collocational variation of the definite article in Inner and Outer Circle varieties of English
Article usage variation is often said to manifest itself in terms of token omission and insertion e.g. American take me to the hospital vs. British take me to Ø hospital. Quantitative evidence, however, can only offer little support for the extensiveness of such variation (e.g. Sand, 2004). Given th...
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