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Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 267] 2021
► pp. 1–12

Chapter 1
Introduction

On the comparative basis of cartographic studies

| Collège de France
| Beijing Language and Culture University
Article outline
  • 1.General background
  • 2.The growth of the empirical coverage and the impact of the study of African languages
  • 3.The importance of comparative studies and the cartography of East Asian languages
  • 4.The contributions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
Published online: 12 October 2021
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