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My debt to the work of Huang and Manzini should be obvious; I am also indebted to Frank Heny and several anonymous NLLT referees for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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Battistella, E. On the distribution of PRO in Chinese. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 3, 317–340 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154266

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