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Review published In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 20:2 (2015) ► pp.260–267

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R. Xiao & T. McEnery. A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of English and Chinese. New York/London: Routledge, (2010). xiv + 201 pp.

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 | Beihang University, China
Published online: 17 August 2015
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