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2.1Summary of evidence of scope effects with head movement 18

3.1The word order patterns illustrated in (27) and (28) 28

3.2The schematic pattern of topic constructions of verbs 43

3.3The schematic pattern of ‘even’-focus constructions of verbs 45

3.4The schematic pattern of copula focus constructions of verbs 46

3.5The schematic pattern of dislocation copying of verbs 47

3.6The schematic patterns of verb doubling constructions 47

3.7The discourse effects of the verb doubling constructions 55

3.8The intervention effects observed with verb doubling constructions 69

3.9Feature specification of the focus and defocus features in Cantonese 74

3.10Distribution of the uninterpretable focus/defocus features and their realizations 75

3.11The discourse effects of the verb doubling constructions (repeated) 78

3.12The word order patterns illustrated in (27), (28) and (146) 93

4.1Summary of evidence of scope effects with head movement 104

4.2Two scenarios of exam results in a class of three 114

4.3A parallel quantificational analysis of aspectual verbs and modal verbs 127

5.1Doubling asymmetries in Cantonese 167

5.2Verb doubling and remnant movement across languages 192