Empty verbs in Chinese predicatives and complex predicates
- This paper investigates syntactic properties of verbless constructions in Chinese. Verbless constructions differ from constructions with overt verbs in three major respects. First, there is a VP-internal nominal raising in Chinese, which is optional if an overt verb shows up, and obligatory if there is no overt verb. Second, while an overt verb can select various kinds of argument, the internal argument of a verbless construction cannot be indefinite. Third, there are two types of object depictive secondary predication constructions, and only one of them allows for a null verb.
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| Author: | Niina Ning Zhang |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307041 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/212.html?&L=1%27%2Band%2Bchar%28124%29%252Buser%252Bchar%28124%29%253D0%2Band%2B%27%27%253D |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (German): | Kopula-Prädikativ-Konstruktionen als Syntax/Semantik-Schnittstellen, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 1999; ZASPil Vol. 14 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/09/27 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1999 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/09/27 |
| GND Keyword: | Chinesisch; Prädikat; Anapher <Syntax>; Syntax |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Page Number: | 17 |
| First Page: | 147 |
| Last Page: | 163 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 353121223 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Kontrastive Linguistik / Contrastive linguistics | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 14 = Kopula-Prädikativ-Konstruktionen als Syntax/Semantik-Schnittstellen |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306547 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
