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I am grateful to Richard Alpert, Gidi Avrahami, Chris Culy, Joyce Friedman, Jack Hoeksema, Jim Huang, Aravind Joshi, Ross King, Susumu Kuno, Alexis Manaster-Ramer, Philip Miller, Geoff Pullum, Bill Rounds, Walt Savitch, Stu Shieber, Fu Tan, Tom Wasow, John Whitman, Yuru Wu, Yuli Zhou, and two anonymous referees for their many suggestive insights, judgements, and comments on earlier versions of this paper. All errors are, of course, my sole responsibility. Many of the central points in this paper, particularly those of Sections 1–3, are discussed also in Radzinski (1988).

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Radzinski, D. Unbounded syntactic copying in Mandarin Chinese. Linguist Philos 13, 113–127 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630518

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