Existential Sentences Crosslinguistically: Variations in Form and Meaning
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Linguistics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2333-9683,2333-9691
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040837