Images and expressions: resultative verb-complement constructions in Chinese

This dissertation presents the results of an extensive and in-depth investigation of Mandarin Resultative Verbal Compounds (RVCs) carried out to uncover the semantic complexity hidden under their syntactic simplicity. A fresh perspective is adopted to achieve a new and more reasonable account of RVC...

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Main Author: Wang, Haidan
Other Authors: Hsieh, Hsin-I
Format: Others
Language:en-US
Published: University of Hawaii at Manoa 2008
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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3045