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On the Notion of “Syntactic Word”: its Origin and Evolution

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2016)

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This paper aims to review the previous studies on “syntactic word”, with the purpose of analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, and clarifying the advantages and significance of the diversified revisions, especially the one amended by Feng [5–10].

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    Huibin Zhuang, Shaoshuai Shen & Peicui Zhang

  2. Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

    Baopeng Ma

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Zhuang, H., Ma, B., Shen, S., Zhang, P. (2016). On the Notion of “Syntactic Word”: its Origin and Evolution. In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_13

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