V-V Compounds in Chinese: Syntactic Perspective Revisited

Huibin Zhuang, Peicui Zhang and Baopeng Ma

SAGE Open, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, 2158244020988681

Abstract: This article revisits the formation of the resultative V-V compounds in Chinese. While presenting evidence to show the inadequacies of the lexicalist approach, we instead argue that these compounds are derived via syntactic operations. Meanwhile, the multiple readings of V-V compounds, once claimed to be the strong argumentation of the lexicalist account, are actually the results of such characteristics of Chinese syntax as the object realization, focalization, and topic-prominence. The evidence provided by the lexicalists thus does not constitute an argument against the syntactic account.

Keywords: V-V compound; lexicalist account; syntactic account; resultative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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