Abstract

This paper defines the Chinese middle construction, and compares two types of typical middle constructions expressing degree of difficulty in terms of the restrictive conditions of verbs and modifiers, the discourse structure, the parallel constructions, the syllabic collocations, the stylistic tendencies, and the two sentence patterns being “NP+V-qilai+AP

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