18.2902, Media: Brasilia Governor Bans Verb Form

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Subject: 18.2902, Media: Brasilia Governor Bans Verb Form

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Date: 05-Oct-2007
From: Lowell Winterbottom < lowbottom at gmail.com >
Subject: Brasilia Governor Bans Verb Form

 

	
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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:42:30
From: Lowell Winterbottom [lowbottom at gmail.com]
Subject: Brasilia Governor Bans Verb Form
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I believe this may a first... Has any other government tried to ban a piece
of morphology before?  

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEFxqHghg28Q 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics





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