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The syntax of the Chinese BA-constructions and verb compounds: A morphosyntactic analysis.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The syntax of the Chinese BA-constructions and verb compounds: A morphosyntactic analysis./
Author:	Zou, Ke.
Description:	311 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-02, Section: A, page: 0670.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-02A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9617013

The syntax of the Chinese BA-constructions and verb compounds: A morphosyntactic analysis.
Zou, Ke.

The syntax of the Chinese BA-constructions and verb compounds: A morphosyntactic analysis. - 311 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-02, Section: A, page: 0670.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 1995.

This dissertation attempts to discuss various types and essential properties of the BA-constructions, resultative verb compounds and directional verb compounds in Chinese, to describe their semantic and syntactic constraints, and to further propose a morpho-syntactic analysis of their formation: (i) BA is a base-generated functional category and it selects an aspect or resultative phrase as complement; (ii) the aspect and resultative phrases are also functional categories whose heads select a VP as complement; (iii) verbal morphemes in a resultative or directional verb compound project and head their own VPs; and (iv) the asymmetric semantic and "implication" relation between the events associated with these verbal morphemes is "canonically structurally realized" as a complementation relation between the superordinate verb morpheme and the subordinate VP. Under this morpho-syntactic analysis, the formation of the BA-constructions, resultative verb compounds and directional verb compounds simply becomes the side effects of verb-raising and NP-movement without requiring any lexical rule or stipulation. The verb-raising is morphologically driven because the inflectional features of the verb have to be checked against the head of the aspect phrase and agreement phrase, and the NP-movement is forced by the Case Filter. They are restricted by the principles of universal grammar. As a consequence of this analysis, the properties of the BA-constructions, resultative verb compounds and directional verb compounds are naturally captured, their semantic and syntactic constraints are explained, and the principled accounts are available for such important issues as the selection restriction on the situation types of verbs in the BA-construction, the negation of the BA-construction, the definiteness or specificity of the BA-NP, the effect of definiteness from the postverbal NP in the BA-construction, the referentiality of NP on the interpretation or grammaticality of the resultative verb compounds, and the alterable distribution of the objects of the directional verb compounds.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

The syntax of the Chinese BA-constructions and verb compounds: A morphosyntactic analysis.
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