On Event-Delimiting in Chinese

• Main Authors: Wang, Yin-tung, 王銀通
• Other Authors: Luo, Lyihpeir
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82863669844146823365

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 外國語文學系 === 95 === This thesis examines how event boundedness/ delimitedness is encoded in Mandarin Chinese; starting from the assumption that event structures are projected from the lexicon and hence predictable from the argument structure and aspectual properties of verbs. According to Pustejovsky’s (1991) view of event type-shifting, the mapping from verb classification to event types is not just in the Vendlerian (1967) one-to-one fashion, but many to many. In Mandarin Chinese, delimited events are denoted largely by resultative compound verbs. In this research we argue that the V2 of resultative V1-V2 compounds can be classified as one of three kinds of event delimiters according to their event-delimiting functions. Further, postverbal NPs are also discussed in this thesis.