Revisiting Manner/Result Complementarity: with evidence from Japanese and Chinese verb compounds

Revisiting Manner/Result Complementarity: with evidence from Japanese and Chinese verb compounds

This paper brings data of verb compounds (V-Vs) from Japanese and Chinese, in an effort to uncover two issues: (a) whether the lexicalisation constraint (i.e. manner/result complementarity) applies to the languages that contain compound verbs; (b) how complex it can be to build compound verb. The fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wenchao LI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2014-12-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
Subjects:
lexicalisation
manner/result complementarity
verb compound
Japanese
Chinese
Online Access:http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/2750

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