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...
Main Author: | Wenchao LI |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
2014-12-01
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Series: | Acta Linguistica Asiatica |
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Online Access: | http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/2750 |
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