Thematic Structure and Verb Copying in Mandarin Chinese  

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Chang, Claire Hsun-huei

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 3-4 (1991), page 399-419.
Fulltext: 13_03-04_Chang.pdf (1.2MB)

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In this study of verb-copying in Mandarin Chinese, it is shown that the function of verbcopying is to highlight the quantity element in a sentence. Thus, different from the traditional treatment, we propose to separate post-verbaf elements of frequency and duration phrases from resuhative phrases. This functional view of verb-copying coincides with the observations made in R.L. Cheng, 1976. Srudies in Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Universe and Scope: Presupposition and Quanrificarion in Chinese, pp. 55-102, Ting-chi Tang, R. Cheng and Ying-che Li (eds), Taipei: Student Book Co. about focus devices in Mandarin. It is also shown that verbcopying is a manifestation of interaction between the thematic structure R. Jackendoff, 1972. Semantics in Generative Grammar, Cambridge: MIT Press and R. Jackendoff, 1987. Linguistic Enquiry 18. 369-411. and the phrase structure condition C.-T. T. Huang, 1982. “Logic and Theory of Grammar,” MIT Dissections. That is, only a certain type of verbs needs to undergo verb-copying when the verb is followed by two elements, one of which is an adverbial phrase of frequency or duration. The restriction on the use of verb-copying is shown to follow from a joint operation of the thematic structure of verbs and the phrase structure condition. Topicalization, ba-construction, and the abundance of V-O compounds in the language further supports the view that two components of grammar are interacting with each other Hsin-I Hsieh, (1990). “In Search of a Grammatical Foundation for Dialect Subgrouping.” Paper presented at IsCLL, Academia Simca, Taipei, Taiwan, 20-22 July 1990.

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