In:Pivotal Constructions in Chinese: Diachronic, synchronic, and constructional perspectives
Rui Peng
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 8] 2017
► pp. 31–64
Chapter 3Chinese pivotal constructions
Form and meaning properties
Published online: 21 March 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.8.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.8.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Introduction
- 3.2The form and meaning properties of the manipulative pivotal construction
- 3.2.1The form properties of the manipulative pivotal construction
- 3.2.1.1The aspectual properties of v 1 and v 2
- 3.2.1.2The negation form of the manipulative pivotal construction
- 3.2.2The meaning properties of the manipulative pivotal construction
- 3.2.2.1Manipulation vs. causation
- 3.2.2.2The interaction between the manipulator and manipulee
- 3.2.2.3The temporal-spatial relationship between v 1 and v 2
- 3.2.2.4 v 1 denotes physical action or verbal action
- 3.2.1The form properties of the manipulative pivotal construction
- 3.3The form and meaning properties of the cause-complement pivotal construction
- 3.3.1The form properties
- 3.3.2Syntactic and semantic ambiguity
- 3.3.2.1The compatibility of cause-complement pivotal construction with transformations of the embedded subordination construction
- 3.3.2.2Native speaker judgments on the meaning of the cause-complement pivotal construction
- 3.4The form and meaning properties of the descriptive pivotal construction
- 3.4.1The basics of the descriptive pivotal construction
- 3.4.1.1The range of v 1 and v 2
- 3.4.1.2Descriptive pivotal construction as a single sentence
- 3.4.1.3The informationally strong v 1
- 3.4.1.4Descriptive pivotal construction and relative clause construction
- 3.4.2Morphosyntactic and semantic constraints on the descriptive pivotal construction
- 3.4.2.1The indefiniteness of the pivot n and the numeral phrase preceding it
- 3.4.2.2The aspectual marking of v 1
- 3.4.1The basics of the descriptive pivotal construction
- 3.5Summary
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