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| Title | Apparent Subject-object inversion in Chinese |
| Creator | 何萬順 |
| Date | 2009 |
| Date Issued | 19-Sep-2008 15:27:58 (UTC+8) |
| Summary | This paper is concerned with the problem of argument-function mismatch observed in the (apparent) subject-object inversion in Chinese consumption verbs, e.g., chi ‘eat’ and he ‘drink’, and accommodation verbs, e.g., zhu ‘live’ and shui ‘sleep’. These verbs seem to allow the linking of semantic role denoting the measure or extent of the action. The account offered is formulated within LFG’s lexical mapping theory. Under the simplest and also the strictest interpretation of the argument-function mapping principle (or the θ- Criterion), a composite role such as ag-ext receives syntactic assignment via one composing role only; the second composing role must be suppressed. Apparent subject-object inversion occurs when in the competition between the two composing roles, ag-ext, the agent loses out and is suppressed. This account also facilitates a natural explanation of markedness among the competing syntactic structures. |
| Relation | Linguistics |
| Type | article |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/LING.2009.040 |
| dc.creator (作者) | 何萬順 | zh_TW |
| dc.date (日期) | 2009 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 19-Sep-2008 15:27:58 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 19-Sep-2008 15:27:58 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 19-Sep-2008 15:27:58 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/2094 | - |
| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | This paper is concerned with the problem of argument-function mismatch observed in the (apparent) subject-object inversion in Chinese consumption verbs, e.g., chi ‘eat’ and he ‘drink’, and accommodation verbs, e.g., zhu ‘live’ and shui ‘sleep’. These verbs seem to allow the linking of semantic role denoting the measure or extent of the action. The account offered is formulated within LFG’s lexical mapping theory. Under the simplest and also the strictest interpretation of the argument-function mapping principle (or the θ- Criterion), a composite role such as ag-ext receives syntactic assignment via one composing role only; the second composing role must be suppressed. Apparent subject-object inversion occurs when in the competition between the two composing roles, ag-ext, the agent loses out and is suppressed. This account also facilitates a natural explanation of markedness among the competing syntactic structures. | en |
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| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
| dc.language | zh_TW | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | - |
| dc.relation (關聯) | Linguistics | en |
| dc.title (題名) | Apparent Subject-object inversion in Chinese | en |
| dc.type (資料類型) | article | en |
| dc.identifier.doi (DOI) | 10.1515/LING.2009.040 | en_US |
| dc.doi.uri (DOI) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/LING.2009.040 | en_US |