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This chapter examines the Chinese Locative Existential Construction (LEC), a controversial grammatical construction in Chinese linguistics. Using corpus and prosodic evidence, we demonstrate that LEC is an information structurally marked construction that presents the entity expressed by the inverted subject as focus. We conclude with pedagogical implications of this finding.

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The Markedness of Chinese Locative Existential Construction: Corpus and Experimental Evidence with Implications for L2 Learning

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    2025年

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  • Ying Chen,
  • Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

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This chapter examines the Chinese Locative Existential Construction (LEC), a controversial grammatical construction in Chinese linguistics. Using corpus and prosodic evidence, we demonstrate that LEC is an information structurally marked construction that presents the entity expressed by the inverted subject as focus. We conclude with pedagogical implications of this finding.