Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese
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action
Action Tier
argument realization in Chinese
Author_Ren Zhang
Big Hat
Category=C
Category=CF
Category=DS
Chinese Passives
cognitive linguistics
conceptual
conceptual inference
construction
construction grammar
Da Wan
Double Subject Construction
Eat Restaurant
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
grammar
Inchoative Event
Inference Rule
LCS
lexical
Lexical Conceptual Structure
lexical semantics
Light Verb
Locative Inversion
Mandarin syntax analysis
Particle Le
Possessive Relation
Postverbal Element
Postverbal Nominal
Postverbal Np
predicate
predicate argument structure
Predicate Expression
Predicate Transfer
Rappaport Hovav
semantics
structures
Theory Neutral Terms
tier
transfer
Unselected Object
Verb Chi
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- ISBN 9780415971003
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other languages, such variation is typically devoid of any formal marking. Previous attempts in explaining such phenomena usually focus on the syntax as an explanatory tool. This book argues that a large majority of such argument structure phenomena are better accounted for by recourse to enriched representations in lexical semantics. Drawing insights from conceptual semantics, cognitive semantics, Generative Lexicon, construction grammar and formal syntax, this book constitutes the first attempt at a comprehensive account of lexical semantic issues in Mandarin Chinese.
Ren Zhang is a visiting professor in linguistics at the School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2002 from York University.
