From language structures to language use:a case from mandarin motion expression classification

Chinese Language and Discourse

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-65

  Chen, Liang ^a   Guo, Jiansheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjective; Attributive; Discourse and grammar; Fixedness; Mandarin conversation; Predicative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989375652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/cld.1.1.02che     Document Type: Article

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