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The Semantics of the Perfective LE and its Context-Dependency: An SDRT Approach

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Wu, JS. The Semantics of the Perfective LE and its Context-Dependency: An SDRT Approach. J East Asian Linguis 14, 299–336 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-005-7077-7

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