Y Ma, B Buccola, Z Wang, S Cousins… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Research over the last 20 years has investigated the processing costs for sentences such as John began the book. Much of this work has conflated sentences with aspectual verbs, like …
CR Huang, SF Chung, IL Su - the Proceedings of the Chinese lexical …, 2008 - Citeseer
Construction grammar [1] or compositional semantics [2] are two important approaches to lexical semantics. This study provides a fine-grained comparison of 趕gan3 and 搶qiang3 …
W Xue, M Liu, S Politzer-Ahles - … : 21st Workshop, CLSW 2020, Hong Kong …, 2021 - Springer
This study explores whether or not Mandarin sentences with complement coercion are acceptable to native speakers. Complement coercion is a phenomenon in which some event …
M Liu, C Hu - Language and Linguistics, 2013 - researchgate.net
The paper explores an interesting case where two distinct patterns of excessive predication are apt to be mistaken as a free grammatical alternation without a semantic change. The …
W Xue, M Liu - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021 - Springer
The study aims to explore the processing pattern of Mandarin Chinese sentences with complement coercion. Complement coercion is a known linguistic phenomenon in which …
Complement coercion (The woman finished the coffee, The worker started a bench) has been treated as a phenomenon of mismatch and repair, where an aspectual verb (begin …
M Liu, J Chang - Chinese Lexical Semantics: 16th Workshop, CLSW …, 2015 - Springer
This study provides a linguistic insight to the issue of polysemy. It shows that semantic profile, an important cognitive mechanism, may be the source of verbal polysemy. With a …