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In chapters 1 and 2 I showed that both subcategorized clauses and NPs need to be assigned Case, where Case assignment obeys the directionality and adjacency conditions. The directionality and adjacency requirements on Case assigment capture a wide range of facts concerning word order in Chinese. For example, the ungrammaticality of [V NP duration/frequency] is accounted for by the claim that the V cannot assign Case to both the NP and the duration/frequency NP simultaneously. Therefore, the V reduplication process is invoked to salvage the structure.
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Li, YH.A. (1990). Multiple Complementation. In: Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1898-6_4
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