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When is corpus linguistics (in)appropriate?

Posted on February 26, 2019 | Leave a comment

I’ve posted the paper that I presented at this year’s Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference at the BYU Law School. It’s titled “Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation: When Is It (In)appropriate.” The abstract is below.

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