The Mandarin VP
The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. The basis claim defended in this book is
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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 44 Managing Editors
Liliane Haegeman, University a/Geneva Joan Maling, Brandeis University James McCloskey, University a/California, Santa Cruz Editorial Board
Carol Georgopoulos, University 0/ Utah Guglielmo Cinque, University a/Venice Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute a/Technology Hilda Koopman, University a/California, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University a/Connecticut at Storrs Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute a/Technology John J. McCarthy, University a/Massachusetts, Amherst Ian Roberts, University a/Wales, Bangor
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RINT SYBESMA Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
THE MANDARIN VP
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Springer-Science+Business Media,
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ISBN 978-90-481-5132-5 ISBN 978-94-015-9163-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-9163-8
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Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The postverbal constraint Theoretical preliminaries Chapter 2. Resultatives 1. Background 1.1. Small clauses 1.2. Simpson's Law 1.3. The relation between the matrix verb and the result denoting small clause 2. Mandarin resultatives: non-Iocatives 2.1. Inventory of the issues 2.2. The question of de 2.2.1. The syntax 2.2.2. Evidence 2.2.3. A technical point 2.2.4. Summary 2.3. The function of Extent Phrase 2.4. Summary of the preliminary results 2.5. Degree and result 2.5.1. Two different structures after all 2.5.2. What we abandon 2.5.3. What we keep 2.5.4. Two questions left 2.6. Summary of the definitive results 2.7. Closing off 3. Causatives and intransitives: the problem of the subject 3.1. Causatives 3.2. Intransitives and the nature of VP 4. Locative resultatives S. Simpson's Law and the ambiguity of riding tired 5.1. Simpson's Law challenged S.2. Lei as a two-place predicate
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5.3. What does it mean? 6. Summary
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Chapter 3. Verb-le 1. The le and le problem 1.1. Two les 1.2. One le and discussion 1.3. Concluding remarks 2. Verb-le 2.1 Introduction 2.2. The distributional-syntactic problem 2.3. The interpretation part one: completion 2.4. Two verb-Ies 2.4.1. Basic analysis 2.4.2. Other problems solved 2.5. The interpretation part two: realization 2.6. The interpretation part three: "freeze" 2.7. The interpretation part four: termin
