Semantic change versus categorical change: A study of the development Of BA in Mandarin

Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 102-128

  Ding, Picus Sizhi ^a  

^a ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

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