Quantitative comparative study on the verb-direction constructions "V+ Xia ()", "V+ Xialai ()" and "V+ Xiaqu ()" in mandarin Chinese.

PLoS One · 2026 · PMC13419241 · PMID 42525683

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For the standard deviations, “V+ Xia ” is significantly more dispersed than “V+ Xiaqu ” (p = 0.0016, one‐tailed), but the difference between “V+ Xia ” and “V+ Xialai ” shows a marginal trend and does not reach statistical significance (p = 0.065, one‐tailed).

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