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- ↑ Hundt, Marianne (1998). New Zealand English Grammar: Fact or Fiction. John Bengjamins.
- ↑ Holmes, Janet (1998). "Generic pronouns in the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English". Kōtare: New Zealand Notes & Queries.
- ↑ Macalister, John (2006). "The Maori presence in the New Zealand English lexicon, 1850–2000: Evidence from a corpus-based study". English World-Wide.
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