According to Huang (1987), all Chinese existential sentences involve the string of “... (NP) ... V ... NP ... (XP) ...”. When the V position is occupied by the verb you, the XP is refered to as you-coda. It has been observed that although the aspect markers zhe and le may alternate in the locative inversion construction (LIC), the superficially identical V-le and V-zhe sequences cannot appear i...