He cut-break the rope’
Encoding and categorizing cutting and breaking events in Mandarin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12197138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jidong Chen (0000-0002-4040-6350, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-19 |
| 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.2007.015 |
| OpenAlex | W1989013139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 4 |
Mandarin categorizes cutting and breaking events on the basis of fine semantic distinctions in the causal action and the caused result. I demonstrate the semantics of Mandarin C&B verbs from the perspective of event encoding and categorization as well as argument structure alternations. Three semantically different types of predicates can be identified: verbs denoting the C&B action subevent, verbs encoding the C&B result subevent, and resultative verb compounds (RVC) that encode both the action and the result subevents. The first verb of an RVC is basically dyadic, whereas the second is monadic. RVCs as a whole are also basically dyadic, and do not undergo detransitivization
Action (physics · Categorization · Encoding (memory · Event (particle physics · Event structure · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Physics · Resultative · Semantics (computer science · Verb · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |