Journal Article10.1007/BF00208523
On V-V compounds in Chinese
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TL;DR: It is shown that only certain theta-grid patterns are allowed, and theoretical devices interact so as to allow all well-formed V-V compounds while excluding all impossible compounds.
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Abstract: In this study of resultative V-V compounds in Chinese, it is shown that only certain theta-grid patterns are allowed. The restrictions on theta assignment are shown to follow automatically from standard Case theory and three other independently motivated assumptions of current Government-Binding Theory: theta-identification (Higginbotham 1985), a structured theta-grid (Grimshaw 1989) and head-feature percolation. Given the assumption that theta roles are assigned hierarchically, these theoretical devices interact so as to allow all well-formed V-V compounds while excluding all impossible compounds.
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