Grammaticalization of verbs in Mandarin Chinese

Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-144

  Xing, Janet Zhiqun ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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