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Spatiality and Its Semantic Consequence of the Quantitative Expression “一CCN” in Mandarin Chinese Read chapter Read first chapter

2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Collostructional Analysis of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin

Authors : Huichen S. Hsiao, Lestari Mahastuti

Published in: Chinese Lexical Semantics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

By investigating the frequency distribution of 37 verbs in Mandarin ditransitive constructions and adopting a collostructional analysis (cf. Gries & Stefanowitsch [1]), this study aims to clarify the construction meaning of each type of ditransitive construction. The preliminary result shows that two constructions differ in terms of fine-grained aspects, such as the number and completion of transfer events. Based on the corpus findings, this study claims that the transfer meaning expressed by double-object constructions entails only one entire macro-event while the transfer event expressed by prepositional dative constructions highlights and involves more than one event, thus increasing the possibility of the prepositional dative conveying incomplete transfer meaning.

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Footnotes
1
In this paper, we use the term “ditransitive construction” (in contrast with Liu’s [6] term of “dative construction”) to sum up all types of Mandarin double-object sentences. In addition, we classify the prototype of double-object ([V NP1 NP2]) and [V gei NP1 NP2] as the same category of “double-object construction” while the sentences that consist of preposition are classified into “prepositional dative construction”.
 
2
Based on the definition of ditransitive construction (see footnote 1), the term dative alternation in this paper is used to refer to the alternation between DO (double-object construction (including prototype of double-object [V NP1 NP2] and V-gei complex [V gei NP1 NP2]) and PD (prepositional dative construction).
 
3
This paper attempts to identify the construction meaning of two types of double-object construction based on the meanings of their representative verbs. Therefore, whether gei in [V NP2 gei NP1] is a preposition or a verb will not actually affect the analysis result.
 
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Metadata
Title
A Collostructional Analysis of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin
Authors
Huichen S. Hsiao
Lestari Mahastuti
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Chinese Lexical Semantics

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-38188-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-38189-9

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_4

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