Ways of Telicization in Chinese Resultative Compounds

• 영문명: Ways of Telicization in Chinese Resultative Compounds
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Chenchen Song Ke Wu
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제32권 제3호, 425~459쪽, 전체 35쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.08.31

영문 초록

In this paper, we build on Song (2018) and undertake a comparative study of the syntactic behavior of verb-resultative (V-R) compounds in three Chinese varieties: Standard Mandarin, Dongying Mandarin, and Wenzhou Wu. They systematically differ from each other in whether they require an obligatory post-V-R morpheme and, if they do, whether the choice of that morpheme is a purely grammatical issue. We find that while both Dongying Mandarin and Wenzhou Wu require a post-V-R morpheme (whereas Standard Mandarin does not), they sharply differ in the choice of said morpheme. We attribute this cross-dialectal variation to the way Chinese varieties telicize their resultative compounds and propose an analysis based on root syntax. After laying out our analysis, which is an extension of the analysis in Song (2018), we further discuss the parameterization of the three-way variation, arguing for a parameter hierarchy-based model over a flat model.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Data

3. Analysis

4. Parameterization

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

Chinese dialects Dongying Wenzhou Mandarin resultative compound root syntax parameter hierarchy