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In Standard Mandarin Chinese, the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis affects syntactic coordination in the language. Thus, as shown by Huang, Li and Simpson, the following example in b. is ungrammatical A. Lisi shi yi ge [lu-shi]( NP ) jian [yi-shi]( NP ) A. Lisi Aux one CL law-teacher and heal-teacher B. *Lisi shi yi ge [[lu-jian-yi]-shi](smallN) B. *Lisi Aux one CL law-and-heal-teacher As correctly predicted by the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis, syntactic transformations are not applicable to word-internal structures. Thus, the example in b. Is not allowed.