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Can completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity?: Evidence from English and Chinese

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Can completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity? Evidence from English and Chinese. / Xiao, Richard; McEnery, Tony.
In: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2006, p. 1-21.

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Xiao, R & McEnery, T 2006, 'Can completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity? Evidence from English and Chinese', Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/CLLT.2006.001

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Xiao, R., & McEnery, T. (2006). Can completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity? Evidence from English and Chinese. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/CLLT.2006.001

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Xiao R, McEnery T. Can completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity? Evidence from English and Chinese. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 2006;2(1):1-21. doi: 10.1515/CLLT.2006.001

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Xiao, Richard ; McEnery, Tony. / Can completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity? Evidence from English and Chinese. In: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 2006 ; Vol. 2, No. 1. pp. 1-21.

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