Why Chinese verb- Le is a resultative predicate

Journal of East Asian Linguistics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 215-261

  Sybesma, Rint ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 4143094027     PISSN: 09258558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008238319773     Document Type: Article

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