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Reconstruction in Chinese
"Reconstruction is an operation that restores the structural conditions for certain grammatical properties, such as binding as well as idiom and scope interpretations, that cannot be otherwise satisfied..." – By Paul Law
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Research Traditions in Germanic Linguistics
"Research traditions in Germanic linguistics draw on a variety of influences, from historical linguistics (and philology) to modern, generative approaches to linguistic inquiry. Similarly, scholars consider a wide range of primary linguistic data..." – By Joshua Bousquette
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