Abstract
DE in Chinese is special in many aspects. It takes various constituents as its complement, while it itself behaves very much like a clitic. On the basis of the previous works, we carried out an investigation of its syntactic features, such as its derivation and cliticization. The syntactic structure of verb copying constructions in V-DE constructions are in fact some adjuncts.
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Zhuang, H., Shi, W., Wang, M., Liu, Z. (2013). On DE: Its Nature and Features. In: Liu, P., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_7
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