TY - GEN
T1 - A Collostructional Analysis of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin
AU - Hsiao, Huichen S.
AU - Mahastuti, Lestari
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This research was supported by a Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology research grant (MOST 107-2410-H-003-025-MY2). We would like to thank you for the reviewers’ comments and Anwei Yu’s proofreading. All errors are of course our sole responsibility.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - By investigating the frequency distribution of 37 verbs in Mandarin ditransitive constructions and adopting a collostructional analysis (cf. Gries & Stefanowitsch [1]), this study aims to clarify the construction meaning of each type of ditransitive construction. The preliminary result shows that two constructions differ in terms of fine-grained aspects, such as the number and completion of transfer events. Based on the corpus findings, this study claims that the transfer meaning expressed by double-object constructions entails only one entire macro-event while the transfer event expressed by prepositional dative constructions highlights and involves more than one event, thus increasing the possibility of the prepositional dative conveying incomplete transfer meaning.
AB - By investigating the frequency distribution of 37 verbs in Mandarin ditransitive constructions and adopting a collostructional analysis (cf. Gries & Stefanowitsch [1]), this study aims to clarify the construction meaning of each type of ditransitive construction. The preliminary result shows that two constructions differ in terms of fine-grained aspects, such as the number and completion of transfer events. Based on the corpus findings, this study claims that the transfer meaning expressed by double-object constructions entails only one entire macro-event while the transfer event expressed by prepositional dative constructions highlights and involves more than one event, thus increasing the possibility of the prepositional dative conveying incomplete transfer meaning.
KW - Collostructional analysis
KW - Construction meaning
KW - Ditransitive construction
KW - Verb meaning
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_4
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078474916
SN - 9783030381882
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 37
EP - 51
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 20th Workshop, CLSW 2019, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Hong, Jia-Fei
A2 - Zhang, Yangsen
A2 - Liu, Pengyuan
PB - Springer
T2 - 20th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2019
Y2 - 28 June 2019 through 30 June 2019
ER -