Functional categories, topic prominence, and complex sentences in Mandarin Chinese

Linguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 342, 1996, Pages 263-294

  Gasde, Horst Dieter ^a   Paul, Waltraud ^a  

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EID: 0042582010     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ling.1996.34.2.263     Document Type: Article

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