Chapter 4
Syntactic and semantic properties of patient-subject constructions
Article outline
- 4.1Sub-classifying the PSC
- 4.2Different kinds of PSC and their semantic properties
- 4.2.1NP + V + Complement
- 4.2.1.1NP + V + Resultative/State Complement
- 4.2.1.2NP + V + Potential Complement
- 4.2.1.3NP + V + Place Complement
- 4.2.1.4NP + V + Time Complement
- 4.2.1.5NP + V + Directional Complement
- 4.2.1.6Section summary
- 4.2.2NP + Adverbial + V
- 4.2.2.1NP + Modal verb / auxiliary verb + V
- 4.2.2.2NP + V + qilai 起来/lai 来/shangqu 上去/zhe 着 + AP
- 4.2.2.3NP + Adverbial + V
- 4.2.2.4Section summary
- 4.2.3NP + V + le 了/zhe 着/guo 过
- 4.2.3.1le 了
- 4.2.3.2guo 过
- 4.2.3.3
zhe 着
- 4.2.3.4Section summary
- 4.2.4NP + V + NP
- 4.2.4.1Partitive objects
- 4.2.4.2Objects of result
- 4.2.4.3Cognate objects
- 4.2.5Two special forms
- 4.2.5.1Verb reduplication
- 4.2.5.2The “capacity” sub-type
- 4.2.6Summary
- 4.2.6.1Syntactic properties of PSC
- 4.2.6.2Semantic characteristics of PSC
- 4.3Two challenges for the “inactiveness” account
- 4.3.1Imperative sentences
- 4.3.2The problem of zhengzai
- 4.4Chapter summary
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Notes