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- Title
On the principled polysemy of -kai in Chinese resultative verbs.
- Authors
Ben Pin-Yun Wang; Su, Lily I-wen
- Abstract
The present study sets out to construct a semantic network for -kai in Chinese resultative verbs based on the framework of Principled Polysemy. Our analysis concerning the cognitive-pragmatic motivations for the meaning extensions of postverbal -kai pinpoints the signiicance of perspective-taking and real-world force dynamics in the conceptual structure of Chinese resultative verbs. With the aid of corpus data, we further demonstrate how pertinent textual cues help to disambiguate polysemous V-kai complex verbs and evoke metaphorical readings of the gestalt V-V constructions, hinting at the distributed and context-sensitive nature of the meaning construction of Chinese resultative verbs.
- Subjects
CHINESE language; POLYSEMY; SEMANTICS research; VERBS; RESULTATIVE constructions (Grammar); GRAMMAR
- Publication
Chinese Language & Discourse, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
1877-7031
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/cld.6.1.01wan