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"i got me a twitter dog": Personal datives in tweets (2013)

December 21, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus analysis

Personal datives, as in "I got me a new raincoat," as they were used in tweets in 2013.

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December 21, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
personal datives, personal datives in twitter
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