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    Eastward Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. WANG on his 80th Birthday
    Eastward Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. WANG on his 80th Birthday
    Eastward Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. WANG on his 80th Birthday
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    Eastward Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. WANG on his 80th Birthday

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    The Festschrift has over sixty contributions by scholars from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, East Asia, North America and Europe, partitioned in Chinese and English volumes. Authors are active in areas of various linguistic frontiers, investigating language and linguistics from an interdisciplinary perspective.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCity University of Hong Kong Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9789629375072
    Eastward Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. WANG on his 80th Birthday

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