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| Title | Intensives and Down-toners: A Study in English Adverbs Issue 1 of Anglistische Forschungen, ISSN 0179-1389 Anglistische forschungen, hrsg. von J. Hoops, hft. l |
| Author | Cornelis Stoffel |
| Publisher | C. Winter's universitätsbuchhandlung, 1901 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2005 |
| Length | 156 pages |
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