The syntax-semantics interface of multi-morpheme motion constructions in Chinese An analysis based on hierarchical scalar structure
- Title
- The syntax-semantics interface of multi-morpheme motion constructions in Chinese An analysis based on hierarchical scalar structure
- Author
- 백지영
- Keywords
- syntax-semantics interface; scale structure; Chinese multi-morpheme motion construction; morpheme order
- Issue Date
- 2011-09
- Publisher
- JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PO BOX 36224, 1020 ME AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
- Citation
- STUDIES IN LANGUAGE,35 (2), 337-379,
- Abstract
- This study analyzes semantic constraints affecting the order of motion morphemes in Mandarin Chinese multi-morpheme motion constructions (MMMCs, e.g. zou-jin fangji (a) over barn 'walk into the room' (lit.) 'walk-enter room' vs. *jin-zou (lit.) 'enter-walk'). We classify Chinese motion morphemes into four types based on recent study on "scale structure". Then, we propose an implicational scalar hierarchy formed by the four types of morphemes that can be used to predict the order of motion morphemes in Chinese MMMCs. Our corpus studies demonstrate that the hierarchy can explain the morpheme order of MMMCs for a comprehensive range of existing natural Chinese data. We anticipate that our scalar hierarchy may be extensible to serial-verb motion constructions in other languages as well.
- URI
- http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.35.2.04lin
- ISSN
- 0378-4177
- DOI
- 10.1075/sl.35.2.04lin
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- COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES[S](인문과학대학) > CHINESE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE(중어중문학과) > Articles
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