Syntax And Semantics Of The Perfect In Mandarin Chinese
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The Syntax of V-V Resultatives in Mandarin Chinese
| Author | : Jianxun Liu |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2021-03-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9813368462 |
This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations. This book is original and new in the following aspects. First, adopting the ‘inner vs. outer domain’ theory, it provides new analysis and evidence that these compounds are generated in syntax, not in lexicon. Second, this book argues that the two subclasses of V-V resultative constructions, object-oriented vs. subject-oriented V-V resultatives, actually have different structures. Their syntactic contrasts have not been observed in the literature before. Third, this book is new in determining the syntactic structure of the V-V resultative constructions through their adverbial modification properties. It demonstrates that the previous isomorphism analysis of the syntactic structure of Chinese V-V resultatives does not hold. Finally, this book provides a new analysis of the issue of the alternations of V-V resultatives. In contrast to previous analyses, which generally view the causative alternation as the idiosyncratic property of particular V-V compounds, this book provides a principled analysis. This book makes a substantial improvement of the current understanding of the issues in the syntax of Mandarin Chinese and gives new support to certain theories of the generative grammar from the perspective of Mandarin Chinese.
Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
| Author | : Xiaoling He |
| Publisher | : Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Construction grammar |
| ISBN | : 9789027203403 |
As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as 'topicalization', 'passivization' and 'ergativization', this book offers a fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent and divergent syntactic structures across the world's languages. This book will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language Typology.
The Mandarin VP
| Author | : Rint Sybesma |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2013-04-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9401591636 |
The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. The basis claim defended in this book is that all elements that follow the main verb in a Mandarin sentence form one single constituent which functions as the complement of the verb. The Mandarin VP offers new and original analyses of such hot issues as resultative constructions, the ba-construction and verb-le. In addition, the conclusions drawn from the research into Mandarin syntax are discussed in more general theoretic terms, which leads to original proposals regarding the internal make-up of accomplishments and the status of Theta Theory. The research reported on in this book was concluded within the bounds of mainstream generative theorizing. The Mandarin VP is of interest to all syntacticians, especially those interested in Chinese.
Mandarin Chinese
| Author | : Charles N. Li |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 716 |
| Release | : 1981-07-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0520042867 |
This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.
The Parameter of Aspect
| Author | : C.S. Smith |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 479 |
| Release | : 2013-03-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9401579113 |
During the period I have been working on this project I have received institutional support of several kinds, for which I am most grateful. I thank the Institute for Advanced Study at Stanford University, and the Spencer Foundation, for a stimulating environment in which the basic idea of this book was developed. The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen enabled me to spend several months working on the the manuscript. ANational Science Foundation grant to develop Discourse Representation theory, and a grant from The University Research Institute of the University of Texas, allowed me time to pursue this project. I also thank the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Texas for research support. I thank Helen Aristar-Dry for reading early drafts of the manuscript, Östen Dahl for penetrating remarks on a preliminary version, and my collaborator Gilbert Rappaport for relentIess comments and questions throughout. The individuals with whom I have worked on particular languages are mentioned in the relevant chapters. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to the members of my graduate seminar on aspect in the spring of 1990: they raised many questions of importance which made a real difference to the working out of the theory. I have benefitted from presenting parts of this material publicly, including cOlloquia at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Pennsylvania, Rice University, the University of Texas, and the University of Tel Aviv.
Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality
| Author | : Louis de Saussure |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9783110195255 |
This book is an up-to-date milestone for the studies of temporality and language, in particular regarding syntax and semantics. Tenses, aspectand modality are investigated both at the theoretical and at the descriptive levels, involving many differe
Perspectives on Aspect
| Author | : H. J. Verkuyl |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2005-11-17 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9781402032301 |
This book offers both a retrospective view on how theories of aspectuality have developed over the past 30 years, and presents current, new directions of aspectuality research. The articles in this book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of the following languages: English and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nahk-Daghestanian languages.
