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Because diachronic changes in the English language have worked in different ways in different geographical variants of the language, some of the present variation in dialects represents historical variation in the language. In some cases, collocations made with earlier wordforms which no longer exist in the mainstream usage of a dialect have survived, effectively fossilising those earlier forms.
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© 2013 Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason and Ramesh Krishnamurthy
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Barnbrook, G., Mason, O., Krishnamurthy, R. (2013). Case studies. In: Collocation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137297242_8
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