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In:Pivotal Constructions in Chinese: Diachronic, synchronic, and constructional perspectives
Rui Peng
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 8] 2017
► pp. 155–180

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Chapter 6
The accumulative expansion of the constructional hierarchy

Published online: 21 March 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.8.c6

Article outline

6.1Introduction
6.2Changes in the m-level pivotal constructions
- 6.2.1The meso I and meso II level constructions
  - 6.2.1.1The manipulative pivotal construction
  - 6.2.1.2The cause-complement pivotal construction
  - 6.2.1.3The descriptive pivotal construction
  - 6.2.1.4The increase in the semantic diversity
- 6.2.2The micro level
6.3Two-dimensional accumulative expansion
- 6.3.1The inclusive growth in semantics
- 6.3.2The stratificational growth with respect to the schematicity level
  - 6.3.2.1The stratificational growth in the meso I level v _enf nv ₂ and the macro level manipulative pivotal construction
  - 6.3.2.2The stratificational growth in the meso I level v _emo nv ₂ and the macro level cause-complement pivotal construction
  - 6.3.2.3The stratificational growth in the meso I v _pre nv ₂ and the macro level descriptive pivotal construction
  - 6.3.2.4The recurrent attenuation of semantic particulars in the process of stratificational growth
- 6.3.3The cyclical interaction between inclusive growth and stratificational growth
6.4Summary
Notes