The Syntax-Semantics Mismatches in Mandarin RVCs ——A Syntactic Causativization Approach

摘要：

Ambiguity and inverted causation are two intriguing syntax-semantics mismatches observed in Mandarin Resultative V-V Compounds (RVCs). Lexicalist approach to them is usually criticized for the theoretical and empirical problems arising in the interactive mechanism between theta-assignment and causative-role assignment in RVCs, as exercised in Li’s (1995) Causative-Hierarchy-Based Account and Her’s (2007) Revised Lexical Mapping Account. We argue that causativity in RVCs should be treated as a case of syntactic causativization and that the syntax-semantics mismatches can be better addressed from a syntactic causativization approach. We now demonstrate the syntactic derivation of RVCs with a widely-discussed example zhui-lei “chase-tired”.

作者: Cheng, Zhenquan

作者单位: 华南师范大学 外国语言文化学院

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 第五届形式语言学国际研讨会

会议地点: 光盘

会议语种:英文

页码: 34-35

在线出版日期: 2011-12-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）