It is considered by some scholars that genitive structures cannot serve as distant objects in double-object constructions. But the paper holds that this conclusion cannot reflect language facts objectively and thoroughly. From ancient Chinese to modern Chinese genitive structures can be found as distant objects, and currently in certain field it is very active, though the frequency of the usage is not so high. Therefore, some special and irreplaceable pragmatic values can be found in the genitive structures as distant objects. The purpose of the paper is to explain that any theory is not perfe...
