Chow (2012) investigated the interface between the semantic and syntactic realizations of RVCs in Mandarin and Cantonese, suggesting that most RVCs in Mandarin have parallel syntactic realizations with their corresponding Cantonese sentences.
the prevailing use of illformed Cantonese RVCs produced by non-native speakers will be unexplained if RVCs in Mandarin and Cantonese share the same structure.