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The relative frequencies of NEED and NEED TO in (corpora of) Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippine and Indian English, compared to US and UK English.
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The paper considers the question of whether it is justitified to draw diachronic conclusions from a comparison of synchronic written and spoken data.
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This page is a summary of: The diverging need (to)’s of Asian Englishes, January 2012, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/veaw.g43.03van.
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