A Treebank-based Investigation of IPP-triggering Verbs in Dutch

Chinese) as the direct object NP. “ 正 在 ” (currently) is analyzed as an adverb,
forming part of the VP.
There is no explicit tense marking in the sentence. The progressive aspect is
lexically expressed through the adverb “ 正 在 ” (currently), reaffirming the
fact that there is no morphological change for the Chinese verb. As a matter
of fact, except for a few dependent morphemes indicating plurality, Chinese
nouns do not have inflectional changes. In this sense, the attribute “lemma”
in below is not really necessary. In addition, the plural personal
pronoun “ 她 们 ” (they) is feminine, illustrating one of the very few personal
pronouns carrying gender information. As a general rule, there is no gender
marking for Chinese nouns. It is thus questionable whether gender marking
should be a default attribute. In the current example, such marking is omitted
for the sake of simplicity and clarity.
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