On Pragmatic Idiosyncrasies of Qur’anic Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Language & Linguistics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2374-8850,2374-8869
DOI: 10.30845/ijll.v5n2a13