Based on the idea that event structure plays an important role in linguistic analysis, this dissertation focuses on three main issues. The first issue is concerned with the intertwined …
M Liu, CR Huang, CC Lee, CY Lee - International Journal of …, 2000 - aclanthology.org
Since verbaO semantics began to receive much attention in Oinguistics research, many interesting findings have been presented regarding the semantic structure or meaning …
The present study examines the syntax and semantics of directional verbs in Cantonese. Directional verbs are verbs that denote movements with an emphasis on direction. Twelve …
LF Wang - Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 2002 - concentric-linguistics.url.tw
This paper aims to explore the various senses that guo possesses and discuss the motivations responsible for its semantic and syntactic diversity. Starting as a motion verb …
R Poiret, S Mille, H Liu - Languages in Contrast, 2021 - jbe-platform.com
This paper proposes to study the contrastive syntax of French and Chinese through the lens of syntactic mismatches, and by making use of parallel treebanks. A syntactic mismatch is …
BPY Wang, I Lily - Chinese Language and Discourse, 2015 - jbe-platform.com
The present study sets out to construct a semantic network for-kai in Chinese resultative verbs based on the framework of Principled Polysemy. Our analysis concerning the …
MC Liu, CR Huang, CY Lee - … 10-11, 1999, Taiwan, R. 0. C., 1999 - waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp
This paper aims to show that semantic representation of verbs may require the inclusion of constructional inferences in addition to lexical specifications. By examining the transitive …