Journal• ISSN: 1000-1263
Linguistics Study
About: Linguistics Study is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Mandarin Chinese & Verb. Over the lifetime, 19 publications have been published receiving 31 citations.
Topics: Mandarin Chinese, Verb, Middle Chinese, Adverb, Classical Chinese poetry
Papers
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the postverbal argument, though incapable of receiving accusative Case from the preceding unaccusative verb, does inherit nominative case from the vacant subject position.
Abstract: Mandarin Chinese displays surface unaccusativity, which manifests itself in the constructions of existentials, non-causatives and passives In these constructions, the verb lacks an external argument, and the sole Patient or Theme internal argument not only shows object-like properties but also is apparently expressed like the object of a transitive verb Given the unaccusative nature of the verb, no accusative Case is assigned to the postverbal argument It is argued that the postverbal argument, though incapable of receiving accusative Case from the preceding unaccusative verb, it does inherit nominative case from the vacant subject position In cases where there is overt NP-movement, while the NP moves to check the strong EPP feature in English, it moves to create an unmarked topic in Chinese, contrary to the well-established assumption that the Patient NP only undergoes Case-driven NP-movement It is possible for a Chinese unaccusative sentence to have a sentence-initial possessor NP while keeping the argument NP in situ The possessor NP is better analyzed as a base-generated marked topic licensed by a semantic variable in the comment Raising the argument NP into the vacant subject position will produce a Patient-subject sentence
5 citations
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TL;DR: The authors investigated the various usages of the affirmative possession verb You related to expressions of aspects in Chinese, and the interaction between written language and spoken language in the course of the development of Chinese has also been discussed.
Abstract: The perfect aspects of many languages are grammaticalized from possession verbs, which is motivated by human cognition. There is an asymmetry between the affirmative and negative forms of the perfect aspect in modern Chinese: the affirmative side was derived of an ordinary verb le meaning 慶ompletion? whose ordering is 慥 + le? but the negative side is derived of the negative counterpart of the possession verb mei meaning 憀ack? whose form is mei(you) + V? However, in many southern dialects of Chinese, the expressions of the perfect aspect is symmetric: the affirmative form of perfect aspect came from the affirmative counterpart of the possession verb you meaning 慼ave, and the negative form from the negative counterpart mei(you) 憂ot have? In addition, this paper has in depth investigated the various usages of the affirmative possession verb you related to expressions of aspects. The interaction between written language and spoken language in the course of the development of Chinese has also been discussed.
4 citations
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TL;DR: The copula Shi(是) has developed into the following 3 grammatical markers: focus, emphasis, and comparison as discussed by the authors, and the internal conceptual relationship between the various uses and the applications.
Abstract: The copula Shi(是) has developed into the following 3 grammatical markers:focus, emphasis, and comparison. This paper addresses the internal conceptual relationship between the various uses and the applications. The different but related uses are determined by the quantity feature of the accompanying words and the number of variables in the construction, which can be represented by formulas.
4 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors classify manner adverbs from meaning and structure, and propose six kinds of co-occurrence orders and rules, and make explanation with the proximity principle and the linear order principle.
Abstract: Manner adverbs, which represent conceptual functions, can be said to reflect the state or the manner of actions from the semantic respect and serve a function to mainly modify some verbs from the grammatical respect. This paper classifies manner adverbs from meaning and structure. According to the cases collected from the data of more than 30,000,000 characters, we propose six kinds of co-occurrence orders and rules, and make explanation with the proximity principle and the linear order principle. In addition, questions are discussed about alternative co-occurrence orders and the mechanisms of grammaticalization of manner adverbs.
3 citations
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TL;DR: This paper explored the grammatical meaning of the Ba-construction in modern Chinese, and argued that instead of execution, disposal, or topic-comment, the relationship reflected by the Baconstruction is that of causation in a sense that in relation with A, B is put in a resultative state caused by A with the marker Ba indicating the direction of causation.
Abstract: With a review of past works on the Ba-construction, and a detailed analysis of a broad range of data, this study is trying to explore the grammatical meaning of the Ba-construction in modern Chinese, It argues that instead of "Execution", "disposal", or "Topic-comment", the grammatical relationship reflected by the Ba-construction: "A Ba B+C" is that of causation in a sense that in relation with A, B is put in a resultative state caused by A with the marker Ba indicating the direction of causation.
2 citations
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| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2003 | 4 |
| 2001 | 1 |