This chapter demonstrates that because of the fusion of the verb and the resultative via reanalysis, the syntactic position for a patient noun between them was eliminated so that the originally intervening patient noun needed to be rearranged somewhere in the sentence on the basis of the following principle: the patient noun was introduced in preverbal position by the disposal marker if it was definite, and was introduced by the first verb of the verb-copying construction if it was indefinite. This issue is related to the motivations for the emergence of the verb-copying construction and the unmarked SOV structure, all of which were entirely innovative in Modern Chinese.

The ditransitive construction is an essential grammatical device that has always existed throughout the history of Chinese. However, its semantic and syntactic properties have varied quite dramatically over time due to the influence of the general grammatical system in different periods. Generally, the ditransitive construction of the Chinese language has undergone a typological change, which makes the Chinese ditransitive construction inconsistent with SVO languages.