Chinese synthetic verbs
A further challenge to manner/result complementarity on the basis of lexical root meaning analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12197043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tianyu Li (0000-0002-3719-1459, Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute , Beijing , China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-260 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/cog-2021-0121 |
| OpenAlex | W4366688791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
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
Word Meaning and Montague Grammar
Toward a Cognitive Semantics
Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions
Path to Realization
Multiple subcategorization and the ?-criterion
Manner and Result in the Roots of Verbal Meaning
Which way to move
Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |