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Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage: Into the Third Millennium
Author(s): Adam Smith (Editor), Peter Collins
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: July 16, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 412 pages
- ISBN-10: 1009569678
- ISBN-13: 9781009569675
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Peter Collins is an Honorary Professor in Linguistics at University of South Wales, Sydney, and former editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics. His primary area of research focuses on the grammar of English, as well as Australian English and World Englishes respectively.
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