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How to express the endpoint or goal of an action denoted by an activity verb?
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What kinds of actions does activity verbs denote?
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When does the perfective ‘le’ operates on an Achievement or Accomplishment?
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What is the semantic feature of aspect particles ‘le’?
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What is the function of concept of process versus result?
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How the Chinese language conceptualizes aspectual opposition?
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What is the most important distinction between aspects?
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What is the relationship between resultative/directional verb compounds and aspectual meaning of result?
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What determine the situation type described by a verb?
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How to use schema to express achievement verb?
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What is achievement verb?
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What is the feature of accomplishment situation?
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What is the identifying ‘shì’ sentence pattern?
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Can locative ‘zài’ sentence be expanded to specify the existence state of the located object?
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