The Mandarin Middle Alternation requires an active form with a passive meaning, and for that purpose, usually it is necessary to use an applicative qilai or an applicative-like durative marker ZHE to follow the verb. A critical condition for a verb to meet in order to enter this alternation is that the surface active linguistic form SV permits an interpretation of VS both semantically and grammatically.
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