Syntactic structures of Mandarin purposives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3987971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wei-Wen Roger Liao (0000-0002-2338-5607, Institute of Linguistics , Academia Sinica , 128, Section 2, Academia Road , Taipei 115 , Taiwan, corresponding author), Tzong-Hong Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University), Tzong‐hong Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-126 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2018-0032 |
| OpenAlex | W2908900473 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
This paper investigates three constructions in Mandarin, all of which convey a purposive/teleological meaning, including thelaipurposive, thehaopurposive, and the bare purposive. Despite the fact that each type of purposive clause in Mandarin occurs at the right edge of a sentence, it is argued that none of the purposive clause is a genuine right adjunct in the underlying syntactic structure. On the other hand, our analysis shows that thelaipurposive employs complementation of a secondary predicate, thehaopurposive involves conjunction of two clauses, and the bare purposive should be analyzed as left adjunction that is stranded in the right edge after verb movement. The evidence for our analysis is drawn from subject and object gaps, theba-construction in Mandarin, agentivity, and linear ordering of multiple purposive clauses. This work thus demonstrates representative cases where a structure that appears to involve right adjunction may in fact employ no right adjunction at all. The conclusion is thus consistent with the prediction of Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |