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Why Plurality of the Possessor Matters in Mandarin Chinese Inalienable Possession Cover

Why Plurality of the Possessor Matters in Mandarin Chinese Inalienable Possession

By: Haiyong Liu  
Open Access
|Dec 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2019-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2470-8275 | Journal ISSN: 1017-1274
Language: English
Page range: 141 - 166
Submitted on: Dec 13, 2018
Accepted on: Jul 18, 2019
Published on: Dec 31, 2019
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
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