Syntactic function padV1.postV2
a particle which precedes and modifies a verbal expression V1, that phrase itself following after and being in construction with a verbal expression V2; traditionally: an adverbial particle which follows a verb phrase, typically a verbal connective.
A particle like ér 而 is taken to be more closely linked with what follows it than with the verb that precedes. The arguments for this way of reading such phrases will need discussion. One notes that when 而 comes between verbal expressions, it often remains possible to construe these verbal expressions as "minor sentences" with omitted subjects, and there is litte to prove that we should not analyse these cases as padS1.postS2.
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