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Igor Mel'čuk. 2021. Ten studies in Dependency Syntax. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 444. US $160.99 (hardcover).

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Igor Mel'čuk. 2021. Ten studies in Dependency Syntax. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 444. US $160.99 (hardcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2024

Jianwei Yan Open the ORCID record for Jianwei Yan [Opens in a new window]  and
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Jianwei Yan
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Tsy Yih
Affiliation:
School of Foreign Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , December 2023 , pp. 622 - 627
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Tsy Yih is the corresponding reviewer; ‘Tsy Yih’ is the transliteration of the name of the reviewer in his mother tongue, Shanghai Wu Chinese. He is also known as ZI YE in Mandarin pinyin. This work was supported by Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project (Grant No. 24NDQN15Z) and the MOE Project of the Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities in China (Grant No. 22JJD740018).

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