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Aitchison, Jean. 1985. Language Change: Progress or Decay? New York: Universe Books.

Baugh, Albert & Thomas Cable 1993. A History of the English Language. 4th edition. London: RKP.

Burton-Roberts, N. 1977. Analysing Sentences. London: Longman.

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- 1986. Barriers. Cambridge: MIT Press.

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Finegan, Edward 1980. Attitudes toward English Usage. New York: Teachers College Press.

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-- 1997a. Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its `Breakdown': Minimalist Feature Checking. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

-- 1997b. "Structures of Tense and Aspect", Linguistic Analysis 27.3-4: 138-165.

Henry, Alison 1995. Belfast English and Standard English: Dialect Variation and Parameter Setting. Oxford: OUP.

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Wells, Ronald. 1973. Dictionaries and the Authoritarian Tradition. The Hague: Mouton.