Attraction or differentiation: diachronic changes in the causative alternation of Chinese change of state verbs
This study examines the interplay of attraction and differentiation through the diachronic encoding of causative alternations in Chinese. A corpus-based analysis is conducted to profile the use of two Change of State verbs (COS verbs), pò ‘break’ and kāi ‘open’, focusing on their argument structure...
| Published in: | Cognitive Linguistics |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2024-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2023-0094 |