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3.1 The N-V type<br />

Unlike English which takes ING to provide the N<br />

category, Chinese Syn-Compounds get their<br />

categories from their syntactic positions, such as<br />

[Spec TP] and the complement of V:<br />

(11) ta meitai douzai gao qi-che xiu-li.<br />

He every day always do truck repair.<br />

‘Every day, he is engaged in truck repairing.’

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