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Double nominatives in Chinese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Teng Shou-hsin
Teng Shou-hsin*
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University of Massachusetts
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Abstract

Double nominative and discontinuous possessive structures in Chinese are investigated. It is demonstrated that base rules as postulated in current syntactic theories cannot adequately handle these cases. It is argued that predicates can consist of an entire sentence; i.e., VP can be written as S. With minor modifications, this proposed rule will also accommodate problematic ‘topic-comment’ sentences.

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Language , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , September 1974, pp. 455 - 473
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Copyright © 1974 by Linguistic Society of America

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