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Published online: 15 February 2019

Table 1.1Major periods of the Chinese language (Wang 1980: 43) 11

Table 2.1The Novel Corpus 20

Table 2.2Token frequencies of motion verbs in the Novel Corpus 21

Table 2.3Type and token frequencies of free motion morphemes in the Novel Corpus 24

Table 2.4Type and token frequencies of MCVCs in the Novel Corpus 26

Table 4.1Three scalar features determining four types of motion morphemes 74

Table 4.2Tests distinguishing nonscalar change from scalar change motion morphemes 80

Table 4.3Tests distinguishing open scale and closed scale motion morphemes 83

Table 4.4Tests distinguishing multi-point from two-point closed scale motion morphemes 87

Table 4.5Meanings and frequencies of 来lái /去qù in the Novel Corpus 88

Table 4.6Meanings and distributions of 来 lái/去 qù 89

Table 4.7Frequencies of “走zǒu/退tuì + 来lái/去qù” with a directional PP 93

Table 4.8Collocation of 进jìn with ground NPs and 来 lái/去 qù in the Novel Corpus 98

Table 4.9Frequencies of complement 来lái/去qù with respect to ground NP in the Novel Corpus 99

Table 4.10Nonscalar change motion morphemes identified in the Novel Corpus 113

Table 4.11Open scale motion morphemes identified in the Novel Corpus 114

Table 4.12Multi-point closed scale motion morphemes identified in the Novel Corpus 115

Table 4.13Two-point closed scale motion morphemes identified in the Novel Corpus 115

Table 4.14Complement 来 lái/去 qù identified in the Novel Corpus 115

Table 4.15Nonscalar and scalar change motion morphemes as the only motion verb in motion constructions in the Novel Corpus 115

Table 4.16Type and token frequencies of bound motion morphemes in the Novel Corpus 120

Table 5.1Motion morphemes occurring in both orders 139

Table 5.2An example illustrating the frequencies of two-/three-morpheme MCVCs in BCC (literature) 139

Table 5.3New type and token frequencies of MCVCs in the Novel Corpus 143

Table 5.4Ordering type and token frequencies of two-morpheme MCVCs in the Novel Corpus 144

Table 5.5Frequencies of 回到 huí-dào and 回进 huí-jìn in BCC (literature) 155

Table 6.1Aspectual classification of verbs based on temporal features 170

Table 6.2A scale-based aspectual classification of Chinese verbs 174

Table 6.3Simple adjectives modified by comparative 更 gèng and negator 不 bù 177

Table 6.4The location and direction NPs occurring in pre- and postverbal 向xiàng PPs 187

Table 6.5The location and direction NPs occurring in pre- and postverbal 往wǎng PPs (Peck and Lin 2019: 109) 188