Modes of compounding in Bantu, Romance and Chinese

Italian Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-249

  Basciano, Bianca ^a   Kula, Nancy ^b   Melloni, Chiara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

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