TY - CHAP
T1 - Chinese Verbs and Lexical Distinction
AU - Liu, Meichun
N1 - Research Unit(s) information for this publication is provided by the author(s) concerned.
PY - 2023/3/22
Y1 - 2023/3/22
N2 - Chinese verbs behave very differently from their counterparts in Indo-European languages and pose interesting challenges to the study of syntax-semantic interface for theoretical and applicational linguistics. The lexical semantic distinctions encoded in the Chinese verbal lexicon are introduced with a thorough review of previous works from different approaches with different concerns and answers. The recent development in constructing a digital database of verbal information in Mandarin Chinese, the Mandarin VerbNet, is also introduced, which offers frame-based constructional analyses of the Chinese verbs and verb classes. Finally, a case study on Chinese emotion verbs is presented to illustrate the unique properties of lexicalization patterns in Chinese verbs. In general, due to its typological characteristics in coding a Topic, rather than a Subject, as a prominent element in the sentence, Chinese shows a more flexible range of form-meaning mapping relations in lexical distinctions. © Oxford University Press 2023.
AB - Chinese verbs behave very differently from their counterparts in Indo-European languages and pose interesting challenges to the study of syntax-semantic interface for theoretical and applicational linguistics. The lexical semantic distinctions encoded in the Chinese verbal lexicon are introduced with a thorough review of previous works from different approaches with different concerns and answers. The recent development in constructing a digital database of verbal information in Mandarin Chinese, the Mandarin VerbNet, is also introduced, which offers frame-based constructional analyses of the Chinese verbs and verb classes. Finally, a case study on Chinese emotion verbs is presented to illustrate the unique properties of lexicalization patterns in Chinese verbs. In general, due to its typological characteristics in coding a Topic, rather than a Subject, as a prominent element in the sentence, Chinese shows a more flexible range of form-meaning mapping relations in lexical distinctions. © Oxford University Press 2023.
KW - Chinese verbs
KW - lexical semantic distinction
KW - syntax-semantics interface
KW - frame-based constructional approach
KW - Mandarin VerbNet
U2 - 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.901
DO - 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.901
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
T3 - Oxford Research Encyclopedias
BT - Oxford Research Encyclopedias
A2 - Aronoff, Mark
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -