The constructionalization and constructional change of noncanonical V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20382240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yanzhi Li (0000-0003-1159-0539, Zhejiang Normal University), Yicheng Wu (0000-0003-2284-0417, Zhejiang University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 886-922 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/sl.17001.li |
| OpenAlex | W2911927440 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
This paper investigates the process of constructionalization and constructional change of apparently noncanonical yet highly frequent V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese, which exist in other languages as well (e.g., Southeast Asian languages and African languages). A corpus-based survey of 20 frequently used monosyllabic verbs shows that both the token and the type frequency of the noncanonical V-NP expressions have on the whole been increasing throughout the history of the Chinese language. From a constructional perspective, it is proposed that the noncanonical V-NP structure has gone through a process of grammatical constructionalization and constructional change ( Traugott & Trousdale 2013 ), which involves diachronic changes in productivity, schematicity and compositionality and which is manifested in the increasing number of the semantic types of postverbal NPs
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |