The syntax of V-V resultatives in Mandarin Chinese / Jianxun Liu.
2021
PL1241
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Title
The syntax of V-V resultatives in Mandarin Chinese / Jianxun Liu.
Author
Liu, Jianxun.
ISBN
9789813368460 (electronic bk.)
9813368462 (electronic bk.)
9813368454
9789813368453
9813368462 (electronic bk.)
9813368454
9789813368453
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (130 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-33-6846-0 doi
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PL1241
Dewey Decimal Classification
495.15
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The generation of resultative V-V compounds
Chapter 3: The syntactic structure of Mandarin V-V resultatives: An event-mapping approach
Chapter 4: The external argument and alternations of V-V resultatives
Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks.
Chapter 2: The generation of resultative V-V compounds
Chapter 3: The syntactic structure of Mandarin V-V resultatives: An event-mapping approach
Chapter 4: The external argument and alternations of V-V resultatives
Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks.