Towards a subject-oriented account of the "NP V LEI LE NP" resultative construction

XIONG Xue-Liang, WEI Wei

Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice ›› 2014, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (2) : 34.

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Towards a subject-oriented account of the "NP V LEI LE NP" resultative construction

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The complement of Resultative Construction is basically object-oriented both in Chinese and English. The Chinese “NP V LEI LE NP”Resultative Construction is a special phenomenon in which the complement conveys a fed-up sense,the object is entailed by the verb and hence the complement can be subject-oriented. When the object is featured [+ LIFE],the semantic reference of the complement in this construction becomes ambiguous. When the object is restricted by a quantifier,only object-oriented reading is possible. A purely syntactic interpretation of this phenomenon is weak so a comprehensive approach of syntax,semantics and pragmatics is required to account for this idiosyncrasy.

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resultative / subject / complement intepretation

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XIONG Xue-Liang, WEI Wei. Towards a subject-oriented account of the "NP V LEI LE NP" resultative construction[J]. Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice. 2014, 3(2): 34
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