Abstract
This paper argues for a nano syntactic approach to the structure of Mandarin spatial preposition zai. It is assumed in this paper that the morpheme zai possesses a fine-grained internal structure with different semantic features on the terminal nodes. This complex syntactic structure provides insight into the omission of zai in Chinese which is in essence due to the feature movement.
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