Authority, prescriptivism abd the French standard language
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- March 1991
- Publisher
- Journal of French Language Studies
- Place
- Cambridge University
- Volume / pages
- Volume 1 / Issue 01 / March 1991, pp 93-111
- Retrieved
- Apr 1, 2015
- Via
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095926950000082X
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