Chinese synthetic verbs

A further challenge to manner/result complementarity on the basis of lexical root meaning analysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12197043
AutoresTianyu Li (0000-0002-3719-1459, Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute , Beijing , China, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume34
Fascículo2
Páginas231-260
Data de publicação2023-04-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641
EditoraDe Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/cog-2021-0121
OpenAlexW4366688791
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas12

This paper introduces Chinese synthetic verbs and analyses their contributions to debates in manner/result complementarity studies and cognitive typology studies. Chinese synthetic verbs simultaneously express manner information and path/result information, but encode them into separate root slots under Beavers and Koontz-Garboden’s (2012. Manner and result in the roots of verbal meaning. Linguistic Inquiry 43(3). 331–369) scopal modifier test, so they differ from English “manner+result verbs” and further challenge the manner/result complementarity hypothesis. Synthetic verbs followed by redundant path/result verbs constitute double-framing structures that twice encode the framing information, and the non-motion case, i.e., the “synthetic verb+result verb” structure, supplements Croft et al.’s (2010. Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions. In Hans C. Boas (ed.), Contrastive studies in construction grammar , vol. 10, 201–235. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company) classification that only includes the motion case, so that Chinese synthetic verbs complement the discussion on double-framing structures. This paper thereby further falsifies the manner/result complementarity hypothesis and provides an overall illustration of the double-framing structure in cognitive typology. This paper also illustrates the diachronic changes of manner, which might be universal and await further investigation

Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Complementarity (molecular biology · Framing (construction · Linguistics · Sociology · Typology · Verb · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation