Restructuring Taiwan Southern Min <i>ū</i> “HAVE” in Adjectival Predicate Constructions
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2164-2818,2164-2834
DOI: 10.4236/ojml.2014.45059