In:Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese: A cognitive functional study
Jingxia Lin
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 11] 2019
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Published online: 15 February 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.11.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.11.toc
Table of contents
List of tables
xi
List of figures
xiii
Abbreviations
xv
Acknowledgements
xvii
Chapter 1.Introduction
1
1.1The notion of motion event in this study
1
1.2Research questions and major proposals
3
1.2.1Research questions
4
1.2.2Major proposals
7
1.3Overview of the book
8
1.4Sources of Chinese data
10
Chapter 2.Encoding motion in Chinese
13
2.1Word formation of Chinese motion verbs
13
2.2Motion verbs and motion morphemes: A corpus survey
20
2.2.1The corpus data
20
2.2.2The motion verbs
21
2.2.3The motion morphemes
22
2.3The motion construction consisting of multiple motion morphemes
26
2.3.1The motion construction consisting of two motion morphemes
27
2.3.2The motion construction consisting of three motion morphemes
28
2.3.3The motion construction consisting of more than three motion morphemes
29
2.4The ordering issue of Chinese motion morphemes
31
2.4.1The motion construction as a type of resultative verbal compound
32
2.4.2Temporal sequence and word order
35
2.4.3Classification of motion morphemes and word order
38
2.5Summary
41
Chapter 3.“Manner vs. path” or “manner + path”?
43
3.1The notions of “manner” and “path” in previous studies
43
3.2“Manner + path” motion verbs
49
3.2.1MP verbs across languages
49
3.2.2MP verbs in Chinese
50
3.3An alternative approach to manner and path
51
3.3.1Distinguishing manner from path
51
3.3.2Case studies
54
3.4“Manner + path” motion verbs revisited
60
3.4.1The manner/result (path) complementarity
61
3.4.2The Chinese “manner + path” morphemes re-examined
63
3.5Summary
69
Chapter 4.Classifying Chinese motion morphemes
71
4.1The notion of scale structure
71
4.2A scale-based classification of Chinese motion morphemes
73
4.2.1Nonscalar change vs. scalar change motion morphemes
75
4.2.2Open scale vs. closed scale motion morphemes
80
4.2.3Multi-point closed scale vs. two-point closed scale motion morphemes
83
4.3A further look into “special” motion morphemes
87
4.3.1来 lái ‘come, hither’ /去 qù ‘go, thither’
87
4.3.2到 dào ‘arrive’
100
4.3.3上 shàng ‘ascend to’/下 xià ‘descend from’
105
4.3.4过 guò ‘cross’
107
4.4A four-way scalar classification of motion morphemes in the Novel Corpus vel
112
4.5Bound motion morphemes and their scale-based classification
116
4.5.1An overview of Chinese bound motion morphemes
118
4.5.2A scale-based classification of bound motion morphemes
121
4.6Summary
123
Chapter 5.Ordering Chinese motion morphemes
125
5.1Collocation of motion morphemes in Chinese
125
5.2Generalizing the morpheme order: The Motion Morpheme Hierarchy
129
5.2.1The operation of the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy
131
5.2.2Motion expressions “challenging” the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy
137
5.3Verifying the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy: A corpus study
143
5.4Motivating the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy: The Scalar Iconicity Constraint
146
5.4.1The operation of the Scalar Iconicity Constraint
147
5.4.2The Scalar Iconicity Constraint vs. the RVC account
150
5.4.3The Scalar Iconicity Constraint and three-morpheme MCVCs
151
5.4.4The Scalar Iconicity Constraint and the incompatibility of closed scale motion morphemes
151
5.4.5The two-point closed scale motion morpheme 到 dào ‘arrive’
152
5.5Summary
158
Chapter 6.Moving beyond motion (verbs)
159
6.1Future directions of studies on motion (verbs)
159
6.2Moving beyond motion (verbs)
160
6.2.1The Manner/Result Complementarity in Chinese
165
6.2.2Scale-based classifications beyond motion verbs
170
6.2.3The Scalar Iconicity Constraint and Chinese word order
181
6.3Summary
165
References
193
Index
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