Syntactic function vi-.vt0+V[0]

an intransitive verb followed and modified by a subjectless (co)verb with its verbal object of which the subject is omitted and lexically predictable.

This is an experimental category attempting to account for an idiomatic construction with 足以 . There does seem to be a deep structural difference with 可以 , and all these problems of contrastive structural description need detailed further discussion. The precise nature of this kind of 以 needs to be explored in detail. This category is just to remind us that this must be properly analysed.


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