Chinese Ba

The Blackwell Companion to Syntax

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 374-468

  Li, Yen Hui Audrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mandarin; Morphosyntactic tests; Non ba counterpart; Over generation; Postverbal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891004493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996591.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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