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Xu Zhang, English Quasi-Numeral Classifiers: A Corpus-Based Cognitive-Typological Study. Bern: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 362. ISBN 978-3-0343-2818-0.

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Xu Zhang, English Quasi-Numeral Classifiers: A Corpus-Based Cognitive-Typological Study. Bern: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 362. ISBN 978-3-0343-2818-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2020

YUAN WEI  and
YI’NA WANG
YUAN WEI
Affiliation:
School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University, Beijing, China E-mail: wwwwyuan@126.com
YI’NA WANG*
Affiliation:
School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University, China E-mail: eenawang@163.com
*
The corresponding author is Yi’na Wang.
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Language and Cognition , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 755 - 760
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of UK Cognitive Linguistics Association

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Footnotes

This review was financially supported by the key project of the Beijing Social Science Foundation (17JDYYA003). We would like to thank Ms Stéphanie Mattheus, a teacher at Centrum voor Levende Talen (CLT) Leuven, for her valuable comments and revisions.

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