One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities: Seventeen Papers Read at the Centenary Conference, Groningen, 15-16 January 1986 |
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Mike Hannay Free University Amsterdam English Comma Place | 81 |
J Posthumus Groningen Short Forms of English Loans in Dutch | 93 |
Frits Stuurman Utrecht Approaching Ought to | 127 |
David Denison ManchesterUniversity of Amsterdam On Word | 139 |
Ingrid TiekenBoon van Ostade Leiden Negative Do in 18th | 157 |
H Aertsen Free University Amsterdam The Use of Dialect Words | 173 |
H H Dragstra Groningen The Modernity of Modern Chaucer | 187 |
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| Title | One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities: Seventeen Papers Read at the Centenary Conference, Groningen, 15-16 January 1986 Volume 64 of COSTERUS NEW SERIES, ISSN 0165-9618 Volume 64 of Costerus (Atlantic Highlands) Volume 64 of N.s, Costerus Volume 64 of New series, Costerus |
| Editors | G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, D. R. M. Wilkinson |
| Contributors | G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, D. R. M. Wilkinson |
| Publisher | Rodopi, 1987 |
| ISBN | 9062037895, 9789062037896 |
| Length | 274 pages |
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