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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">In the framework of my phd-research, I am
currently focusing on the use of causal and contrastive connectives by
French-speaking learners of Dutch. I already have a Dutch learner corpus, but in
order to make meaningful comparisons I would also need a control corpus
consisting of argumentative texts written by Dutch students in their native
language. Does anyone know about such a corpus or has data (ideally already in
electronic format) at their disposal which could help? <SPAN
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<DIV>Julien Perrez<BR>Centre for Text and Discourse Studies
(CETIS)<BR>Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)</DIV>
<DIV>Place B.Pascal, 1<BR>B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve<BR>T.: + 32 10 474973<BR>F.: +
32 10 474942<BR>Local C.468<BR><A
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