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Revisit the Resultative Construction in Mandarin Chinese
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https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v6i4.6458Abstract
This study revisits the syntactic derivation of two resultative patterns in Mandarin Chinese: the compounding resultative and the DE-resultative. A splitting light verb structure is examined in these two patterns, both of which contain multiple adjacent light verbs along with feature inheritance. The v-splitting approach is better than a base-generated structure with two separate v heads. One advantage is that it allows us to formulate the analysis in which the root raises to the light verb v* without violating the head movement constraint. It also works well to explain the specificity of the postverbal argument in the resultative construction.
Keywords:
Resultative construction; Light verb; Splitting; Chinese; GrammarReferences
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