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Errata and TODO

TO DO:
    - Make the \REF{} particle a topic marker, otherwise top-level sentences are
      not disambiguatable (`The son has a father', `The father has a son.').
      (DONE, I think.  Check this.)

    - Make re-positioning words be full verbs, too, like some in Mandaring:
      shang4, xia4 can function as postpositions:
          zai4 yi3zi shang4 you3 shu1.  (CHECK tone of yizi)
      or verbs:
          wo3 shang4 che1.

    - decide how to cope with gapping:
          X is rich and drives a car.
      Problem here:
          Patient: rich X.
          Agent:   X move car.

      So we may need something to compose this.  E.g. something like
      passive/antipassive or the like.  But I do not want to have
      another grammar rule.  Maybe even disallow it and require a
      back reference via pronoun:
          A is rich and <s/he> drives a car.

      This is likely to introduce structures that violate the
      increasing control constraint, however.

    - have no resultative and inchoative verbs in the lexicon.
    - repair the sample sentences according to this.
    - repair the lexicon according to this.

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