埼玉県越谷市About Mandarin Chinese "verb-copying" sentences, it is allegedly said that the first verb of its two verbs can be occasionally deleted. In previous articles, the question when and why this phenomenon occurs has not been mentioned. Since a language has its consistent system, obligatorily duplicated verbs cannot be arbitrarily deleted. According to synchronic and diachronic observation, verb-copying seems to be an obligatory process too. If so, the sentence in question (他汉语说得很流利) cannot be explained by the verb-deletion. This paper suggests object-preposing to explain this sentence. Objects are preposed when intensification or comparison is needed. So this construction is used to intensify or to compare the object, and native speakers' ...
This squib observes that object extraction in Chinese control structures is sensitive to the syllabl...
In this chapter, we shed new light on the reduplicative processes of Mandarin Chinese and\ud assess ...
The goal of the present study is to investigates the relation between syntax and semantics. To this ...
The verb-copying sentence is a special sentence in Chinese and has received extensive attention from...
In this paper, I explore the components of the sideward movement involved in the verb copying constr...
This paper examines issues related to transitivity in Chinese, looking in particular at verb use in ...
Mandarin verbal reduplication is generally regarded as a phenomenon conveying an aspectual value sin...
This paper examines the Verb-copying sentence of the “V+V” structure, within which verbs can be clas...
This paper examines three subtypes of the verb copying construction in Chinese. We begin by looking ...
In this thesis, the formations of two multi-word constructions in Chinese—the V-O verb copy construc...
Verb-doubling, where a copy of the main verb occurs both before and after the direct object, is a st...
Reduplication commonly seen in the literature creates new words by affixing to all or part of the ba...
When complement and object appears all together in one sentence, some verbs can be reduplicated, can...
Many English verbs that allow object alternations have Kimaragang translation equivalents which alte...
For almost 80 years, Chinese linguists have been fascinated by sentences like “Pijiu ba, he dianr!” ...
This squib observes that object extraction in Chinese control structures is sensitive to the syllabl...
In this chapter, we shed new light on the reduplicative processes of Mandarin Chinese and\ud assess ...
The goal of the present study is to investigates the relation between syntax and semantics. To this ...
The verb-copying sentence is a special sentence in Chinese and has received extensive attention from...
In this paper, I explore the components of the sideward movement involved in the verb copying constr...
This paper examines issues related to transitivity in Chinese, looking in particular at verb use in ...
Mandarin verbal reduplication is generally regarded as a phenomenon conveying an aspectual value sin...
This paper examines the Verb-copying sentence of the “V+V” structure, within which verbs can be clas...
This paper examines three subtypes of the verb copying construction in Chinese. We begin by looking ...
In this thesis, the formations of two multi-word constructions in Chinese—the V-O verb copy construc...
Verb-doubling, where a copy of the main verb occurs both before and after the direct object, is a st...
Reduplication commonly seen in the literature creates new words by affixing to all or part of the ba...
When complement and object appears all together in one sentence, some verbs can be reduplicated, can...
Many English verbs that allow object alternations have Kimaragang translation equivalents which alte...
For almost 80 years, Chinese linguists have been fascinated by sentences like “Pijiu ba, he dianr!” ...
This squib observes that object extraction in Chinese control structures is sensitive to the syllabl...
In this chapter, we shed new light on the reduplicative processes of Mandarin Chinese and\ud assess ...
The goal of the present study is to investigates the relation between syntax and semantics. To this ...