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The Intervention Effect in Late Archaic Chinese and Modern Mandarin

By: Aiqing Wang  
Open Access
|Jun 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2021-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2470-8275 | Journal ISSN: 1017-1274
Language: English
Page range: 29 - 95
Submitted on: Sep 9, 2019
Accepted on: Jun 30, 2020
Published on: Jun 30, 2021
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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