Add to ORKGThis paper argues that the Invertible Construction (IC) in Chinese is a kind of distributive construction. What appears to be an inversion of word order is best understood as the division of the theme NP to be acted upon by a number of agents for an embedded event. This analysis best captures a number of otherwise intractable properties of the IC including the necessarily quantitative interpretation of the NPs and the incompatibility with adverbs of volition.
This paper investigates a particular type of non-canonical construction in Mandarin Chinese displayi...
The paper considers two superficially very similar constructions with two verbs in Chinese, and sugg...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2018This dissertation argues in favor of the Universal DP ...
This paper argues that the Invertible Construction (IC) in Chinese is a kind of distributive constru...
Two hypotheses regarding the nature ofdistributivity have been proposed in the literature: the "...
ditransitive construction is the provider of a theme when it occurs after single root transference v...
In this paper, I first introduce what inalienable possession structure (IPS) is cross-linguistically...
The notional passive construction (NPC, henceforth) is claimed to be the most common form of passive...
This thesis is a study of various aspects of Chinese syntax, from a government-and binding perspecti...
This paper argues that long-standing problems in the analysis of Chinese, such as the question of wo...
This thesis presents a neo-constructionist theory to account for a couple of puzzles centring aroun...
ABSTRACT. This paper is concerned with the problem of argument-function mismatch observed in the app...
This dissertation studies leftward dislocation of object Noun Phrases in Mandarin Chinese within th...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.In...
[[abstract]]This paper aims to provide numerous pieces of evidence of iconic phenomenon in the lingu...
This paper investigates a particular type of non-canonical construction in Mandarin Chinese displayi...
The paper considers two superficially very similar constructions with two verbs in Chinese, and sugg...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2018This dissertation argues in favor of the Universal DP ...
This paper argues that the Invertible Construction (IC) in Chinese is a kind of distributive constru...
Two hypotheses regarding the nature ofdistributivity have been proposed in the literature: the "...
ditransitive construction is the provider of a theme when it occurs after single root transference v...
In this paper, I first introduce what inalienable possession structure (IPS) is cross-linguistically...
The notional passive construction (NPC, henceforth) is claimed to be the most common form of passive...
This thesis is a study of various aspects of Chinese syntax, from a government-and binding perspecti...
This paper argues that long-standing problems in the analysis of Chinese, such as the question of wo...
This thesis presents a neo-constructionist theory to account for a couple of puzzles centring aroun...
ABSTRACT. This paper is concerned with the problem of argument-function mismatch observed in the app...
This dissertation studies leftward dislocation of object Noun Phrases in Mandarin Chinese within th...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.In...
[[abstract]]This paper aims to provide numerous pieces of evidence of iconic phenomenon in the lingu...
This paper investigates a particular type of non-canonical construction in Mandarin Chinese displayi...
The paper considers two superficially very similar constructions with two verbs in Chinese, and sugg...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2018This dissertation argues in favor of the Universal DP ...