On the syntax of assigning you constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21756990
AutoresRui-heng Ray Huang (National Taipei University of Business, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume24
Fascículo2
Páginas269-301
Data de publicação2023-04-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage and Linguistics 語言暨語言學 (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1606-822X • E-ISSN: 2309-5067
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lali.00131.hua
OpenAlexW4323669332
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas11

Assigning you constructions in Mandarin Chinese are special in that they often read like passives. With this in mind, the goal of this paper is twofold. First, I aim to compare assigning you constructions with typical passive constructions of bei in Mandarin Chinese. Second, I attempt to seek an approach that may derive assigning you constructions desirably. The research results are as follows. I have found that assigning you constructions and bei passives differ both semantically and syntactically. I argue, contrary to Xiong (2010) , that you is not a passive morpheme since, unlike Mandarin bei passives or English be passives, assigning you constructions do not always exhibit the initial NP as a Patient or Theme. I also argue against the traditional treatment of you as a preposition and instead propose that you is a three-place predicate taking an IP complement. I show that the bi-clausal structure deriving from the verb analysis receives empirical support from binding phenomena

Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Morpheme · Natural language processing · Programming language · Syntax · Verb · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence