Conjoining and Deletion in Mandarin Syntax
William Yang Wang · Monumenta Serica · 1967
Recent research into the theory of grammar indicates the importance of distinguishing between the deep structure and the surface structure of a language.2 At the deep-structure level, we may represent a sentence in the form of a labelled tree diagram called a deep P~marker (abbreviated P~d).3 The P~d contains rather complete information on the semantic and syntactic constituency of the sentence ; it serves as a basis for the application of the rules for semantic interpretation of the sentence. At the