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Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2470-8275 | Journal ISSN: 1017-1274
Language: English
Page range: 93 - 118
Submitted on: Dec 6, 2016
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Accepted on: Sep 22, 2017
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Published on: Dec 29, 2017
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