Resultative Constructions In Mandarin Chinese From The Perspective Of Construction Grammar
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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 | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2019-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027262349 |
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 Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar
Author | : Yuzhi Shi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027230621 |
This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also addresses a series of grammatical changes and innovations caused by the formation of this resultative construction, such as the development of aspect, mood, verb reduplication, the new predicate structure, the disposal construction, the passive construction, the verb copying construction, and the new topicalization construction, all of which together shape the grammatical system of Modern Chinese. The present analysis raises and discusses a number of theoretical issues that are meaningful to various linguistic disciplines like pragmatics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and general historical linguistics.
Causative and Resultative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Author | : Dianyu Li |
Publisher | : Goteborg University |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Causative (Linguistics) |
ISBN | : 9789197389563 |
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.
Studies on Bă Resultative Construction
Author | : Picus Sizhi Ding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar
Author | : Yuzhi Shi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027230625 |
This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also addresses a series of grammatical changes and innovations caused by the formation of this resultative construction, such as the development of aspect, mood, verb reduplication, the new predicate structure, the disposal construction, the passive construction, the verb copying construction, and the new topicalization construction, all of which together shape the grammatical system of Modern Chinese. The present analysis raises and discusses a number of theoretical issues that are meaningful to various linguistic disciplines like pragmatics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and general historical linguistics.