NON-TYPICAL MIDDLES IN TAIWAN SOUTHERN MIN

This paper discusses non-typical middles that involve resultative verbal compounds in Taiwan Southern Min. This paper first applies tests to prove that the patient NP before the compound in question is a subject, not a topic, and thus this compound occurs in a middle construction. Next, this paper d...

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Main Author: Huei-Ling Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Crane Publishing Co 2012-12-01
Series:Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume10-2/10.2-1.pdf