The Mandarin Locative Inversion Alternation involves two semantically interchangeable syntactic constructions, contrastively coded as YVX and XVY, according to which both X and Y can be an NP and a PP. However, the former NP is interpreted or treated as a PP. The meanings of the alternation resolves around that something is placed somewhere and is being left in that state, or someone appears or disappears somewhere.
| Verb Meaning | Verb form | Basic coding frame | Derived coding frame | Occurs | Comment | # Ex. | |
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