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preposition structure
"带来书" feels weird. When the object of 带 is a single word (1 to 3 characters) we usually place 来 after the object: 带书来. It is only when the object is a complex phrase that we place 来 before ...
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what is the position of duration in a sentence?
我们得(在)一个小时(內)到机场 = We have to get to the airport (in) an hour (within) = We have to get to the airport within an hour
"An hour"(一个小时) in this sentence is not a [duration complement] but a [...
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What are the key examples to demonstrate whether Mandarin Chinese has a rigid or flexible word order?
Chinese has a very flexible sentence structure
我昨天晚上睡得不好
昨天晚上我睡得不好
The examples given in the OP are arguably not Chinese per se. Or not the Chinese a Chinese would use.
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What are the key examples to demonstrate whether Mandarin Chinese has a rigid or flexible word order?
Chinese grammar, if in a standard manner, is quite like English. It is an SVO structure. In your question, the basic structure is:
她问路。她(subjective), 问(verb), 路(objective)。
All of the other components ...
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What are the key examples to demonstrate whether Mandarin Chinese has a rigid or flexible word order?
Chinese does indeed have templatic word order, but the categories in the post are not the real ones used. That source is laying out the typical ordering, not the required ordering.
Overall, I would ...
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Collection of Chinese sentence-level grammar rules as semi-structured "data"?
Hunspell is built for languages which use spaces between words. That makes it easy to get the individual words, then check the spelling or even existence of each word. In Python, if asentence is a ...
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Inverted word order for a sentence with a relative clause?
Maybe you are just using a simple English mindset to analyse Chinese, a language with its own beautiful and unique, non-English format.
两件事情深深地刺激了他.
Two things deeply upset him.
(upset is timeless, is ...
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Inverted word order for a sentence with a relative clause?
My opinion is that 后来发生了两件事情深深地刺激了他 is a 兼语谓语句. It is the abbreviated form of the 连贯复句 "后来发生了两件事，(两件事)深深地刺激了他". "后来发生了两件深深地刺激了他的事件" is also correct translation, but "后来发生了两件事情，...
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Inverted word order for a sentence with a relative clause?
后来发生了两件事情深深地刺激了他
= 后来发生了两件事情，深深地刺激了他
= 后来发生了两件事情，which 深深地刺激了他
= 后来发生了两件事情，两件事情深深地刺激了他
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