Kan ge zixi and kan de zixi: distinction between post-verbal ge and de on construction grammar account

• Main Author: Ziming Lu
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2016-12-01
• Series: Revista Linguística
• Online Access: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/5437
• ISSN: 1808-835X; 2238-975X

<span class="fontstyle0">This research aims to identify particles </span><span class="fontstyle2"><em>ge </em></span><span class="fontstyle0">and </span><span class="fontstyle2"><em>de </em></span><span class="fontstyle0">in post-verbal position when followed by descriptive expressions with Construction Grammar approach. These two particles are studies in separate constructions and these two constructions in which </span><em><span class="fontstyle2">ge </span></em><span class="fontstyle0">and </span><span class="fontstyle2"><em>de </em></span><span class="fontstyle0">occur show distinct syntactic behaviours as well as different semantic properties. Therefore, </span><span class="fontstyle2">ge </span><span class="fontstyle0">and </span><span class="fontstyle2"><em>de </em></span><span class="fontstyle0">do not have the same function in postverbal position because the constructions they construct are different.</span>