Free Merge and Interpretative Independence of CI:
The case of give in Mandarin

I defended a unified approach to the verb of giving in Mandarin (gei 'give'), where the different readings (e.g., benefactive, affective, passive) result from the same/similar ditransitive construction (GIVE + NP + NP/VP), rather than different applicative constructions. 

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