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Principles of methodology: a case study from the history of English1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2014

SHERRYLYN BRANCHAW
SHERRYLYN BRANCHAW*
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , November 2014 , pp. 549 - 566
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Footnotes

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I would like to thank the ELL Review Editor Bas Aarts and two reviewers, Robert Fulk and Roger Lass, for providing feedback on my article, finding errors and suggesting improvements; Donka Minkova for proposing me as the reviewer of this book; Mariana Cirne for consultation on some points of the methodology of science; Robin Reid, Rachel Klippenstein and Matthew Chan for feedback on early drafts. Roger Lass's detailed and encouraging commentary on my article, including a reminder that he too has been writing for several decades on the importance of methodology, e.g. Lass 1980, was especially helpful.

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