The Conditions on Causative Structures in Chinese Resultative Constructions

Causative structures are important grammatical structures with unique semantic features and syntactic properties. The mechanism making the Chinese causative structures has been of great concern. There are a lot of discussions on the Mechanism of Causative Alternation at the Syntax-Semantics Interface, but little research on the logic of the clauses after the alternation. This paper explores the conditions in which the causative structures can exist from a cognitive perspective