In light of extensive studies on the English do so construction, this paper investigates the lesser-known counterpart in Chinese as well as the properties of the words do and so. It will be shown that Chinese provides clearer evidence for analyzing this do as a light verb spelling out the eventuality predicate DO and takes a VP as its complement, which contains so. The analysis of the structure and derivation of the do so construction proposed in this work will be supported by comparison with related predicate anaphors and the structure containing a verb and so (such as I think so). The results of this study help resolving controversies relating to various constituency and argument structures. The cases illustrated are the ba construction, apparent prenominal PPs, control structures, and argument vs. non-argument PPs.

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用普通话怎么做

鉴于对英语“这样做”构造的广泛研究，本文研究了汉语中鲜为人知的对应词以及“这样做”等词的性质。可以看出，汉语是一个轻而易举的动词，用来阐明这种可能性谓词DO，并以VP作为其补充，为分析这一行为提供了更清晰的证据。结构和推导的分析，这样做这项工作提出的建设，将通过与相关谓词照应，并包含一个动词结构和比较支持这样（比如我是这么认为的）。这项研究的结果有助于解决与各种选区和论点结构有关的争议。所示的情况包括ba构造，明显的名词性PP，控制结构以及参数与非参数PP。