The Difference and Motivation of the Semantic Conflation Patterns in Chinese and English Autonomous Motion Event Sentences: Path and Containers
By: Xiaotong Xu and Mitian Chen
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Language: English
Page range: 55 - 74
Submitted on: Sep 20, 2023
Accepted on: Oct 16, 2024
Published on: May 2, 2025
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
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