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Making Sense of Grammar
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Process adverbials constitute a large part of adverbials in Chinese. They modify, in some way, the process denoted by the verb. They contain three semantic classes: (a) manner, (b) means and (c) instrument.

[1] Loar, J. K. (2011). Chinese syntactic grammar: functional and conceptual principles. New York: Peter Lang.
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