Syntactic function vt[0]onpro.adVtoN
transitive verb with a lexically predictable omitted logical subject, with pronominal object which modifies another transitive verb with its object (e.g. 譬之若 x)
This syntactic category is puzzling because for the predictable and invariant logical subject there is no overt explicit form in Chinese. How can one claim that a subject is omitted when in fact one does not know how it could be made explicit in the first place? One might in the end need the very interesting notion not of an omitted subject, but of a generic zero-subject. This is a matter that must be pursued.
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