
The Syntax of V-V Resultatives in Mandarin Chinese
Jianxun Liu(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 3. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 125 pages
978-981-336-848-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations. This book is original and new in the following aspects. First, adopting the 'inner vs. outer domain' theory, it provides new analysis and evidence that these compounds are generated in syntax, not in lexicon. Second, this book argues that the two subclasses of V-V resultative constructions, object-oriented vs. subject-oriented V-V resultatives, actually have different structures. Their syntactic contrasts have not been observed in the literature before. Third, this book is new in determining the syntactic structure of the V-V resultative constructions through their adverbial modification properties. It demonstrates that the previous isomorphism analysis of the syntactic structure of Chinese V-V resultatives does not hold. Finally, this book provides a new analysis of the issue of the alternations of V-V resultatives. In contrast to previous analyses, which generally view the causative alternation as the idiosyncratic property of particular V-V compounds, this book provides a principled analysis.
This book makes a substantial improvement of the current understanding of the issues in the syntax of Mandarin Chinese and gives new support to certain theories of the generative grammar from the perspective of Mandarin Chinese.
More details
Edition
2021 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
170 s/w Abbildungen
IX, 125 p. 170 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
219 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-336-848-4 (9789813368484)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-33-6846-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Book
03/2021
Springer
€80.24
Shipment within 10-15 days
Person
Jianxun Liu received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Victoria Canada in 2019. Liu's primary research areas are generative syntactic theory, the semantics/syntax interface, and the syntax of Chinese. Liu's research particularly focuses on the two generative theories, Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, and their application in the study of Mandarin Chinese. Liu was awarded a doctoral fellowship by the Social and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2016.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The generation of resultative V-V compounds.- Chapter 3: The syntactic structure of Mandarin V-V resultatives: An event-mapping approach.- Chapter 4: The external argument and alternations of V-V resultatives.- Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks.