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Where to find collection of Chinese serialized verb constructions (SVC)?

I have encountered a pretty cool area of research of translating between Chinese and English back and forth, and found documents like A cognitive approach to multi-verb constructions in Mandarin ...
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Does omitting pronouns change the relationship between sentences?

Compare the following sentences: 妈妈昨天喝茶,今天喝咖啡。 妈妈不喝茶,她喝咖啡。 Sentence (1) seems quite straightforward: the pronoun is omitted because it is clear who is being talked about and there is no need to ...