Based on the experiment with the brain damaged patients assubjects, this paper attempts to examine whether the two effects work in Chinese as well. The findings demonstrate that （1） the effects are true to but work differently in Chinese; （2） the continuum of valency quantity seems more valid in explaining the quantity effect found in Chinese subjects; （3） from the perspective of valency quantity, bi-valeney verbs serve as the prototype of Chinese verbs and bi-valency structure as the proto-structure, and （4） from the perspective of val...
