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Asyndetic coordination

Dictionaries and Chang (p. 238) give the impression that as a marker of asyndetic coordination -等 must be followed by a numeral classifier. This is not true; other clues, e.g. 都, can also serve to show that it is an exhaustive enumeration.

Example

比如時間、地點、工具短語都有語序變化問題 (2010)