31.2766, Books: The Chinese Resultative Construction: Fong

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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:31:33
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: The Chinese Resultative Construction: Fong

 


Title: The Chinese Resultative Construction 
Subtitle: A Cognitive Constructional Analysis 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Chinese Linguistics 14  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LSCHL-14-The-Chinese-Resultative-Construction/en 


Author: Ronald Fong

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862902194 Pages: 180 Price: Europe EURO 148


Abstract:

This study examines the structure and function of the Chinese resultative
construction. Specifically, it makes an attempt to integrate the form and
function, syntax and semantics, Chinese and English, and formal and functional
perspectives. Since the interface between syntax and lexical semantics has
intrigued researchers in linguistics and related fields more than ever, the
argument structure has been postulated to capture the relationship between
syntax and semantics.

Resultative verb compounds in Chinese have been shown to provide insights into
the theory of argument structure as the syntax-semantics interface. In
particular, this work examines the verb classes that enter into the
resultative construction in Chinese and proposes an innovative analysis of the
construction based upon the insights from contemporary studies such as
Cognitive Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 2006) and Huddleston and Pullum
(2002). Further, this study incorporates typological evidence and argues that
the resultative construction signals the concept of subordination. The
analysis is then extended to the language-particular phenomenon in Chinese –
the ba-construction, which shows further usefulness of the proposed analysis.
In fact, the current framework demonstrates the interesting results of the
interaction between the ba-construction and the resultative construction in
Chinese.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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