A Corpus-Based Investigation of Manner/State Complement Constructions in Mandarin Chinese

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4142
dc.contributor.author	Jin Hong Gang
dc.contributor.author	Tao Hongyin
dc.contributor.author	Zhang Jie
dc.title	A Corpus-Based Investigation of Manner/State Complement Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This study is an investigation of the complement constructions of manner and state (CM/S, e.g. 他的字写得好 tā de zì xiě de hǎo ‘he writes characters well’) based on a corpus of written Chinese. We find that CM/S have preferred forms and functions. Formally speaking, a monosyllabic verb, preferably 变 biàn ‘change, become’, basic action verbs, or psychological state verbs tend to co-occur with complements of adjectival, clausal, or idiomatic expressions. CM/S are argued to be an assessment device indexing speaker evaluative stances. The loaded affective meanings, we contend, account for the larger and more complex forms than their standard assessment counterparts. The implications of these findings on Chinese syntactic research and on L2 learning are explored.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-10-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-06-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/a-corpus-based-investigation-of-mannerstate-comple/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/001
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-407-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-406-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Assessment
dc.subject	Assessment
dc.subject	Chinese Complement Construction
dc.subject	Chinese Complement Construction
dc.subject	Complement of Manner
dc.subject	Complement of Manner
dc.subject	Complement of State
dc.subject	Complement of State
dc.subject	Construction Grammar
dc.subject	Construction Grammar
dc.subject	Evaluative Stance
dc.subject	Evaluative Stance
dc.subject	Iconicity
dc.subject	Iconicity

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A Corpus-Based Investigation of Manner/State Complement Constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Hongyin Tao UCLA, USA

Hong Gang Jin University of Macau, China

Jie Zhang University of Oklahoma, USA

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abstract

This study is an investigation of the complement constructions of manner and state (CM/S, e.g. 他的字写得好 tā de zì xiě de hǎo ‘he writes characters well’) based on a corpus of written Chinese. We find that CM/S have preferred forms and functions. Formally speaking, a monosyllabic verb, preferably 变 biàn ‘change, become’, basic action verbs, or psychological state verbs tend to co-occur with complements of adjectival, clausal, or idiomatic expressions. CM/S are argued to be an assessment device indexing speaker evaluative stances. The loaded affective meanings, we contend, account for the larger and more complex forms than their standard assessment counterparts. The implications of these findings on Chinese syntactic research and on L2 learning are explored.

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Oct. 14, 2020

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June 30, 2020

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978-88-6969-407-3

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978-88-6969-406-6

Keywords: Evaluative Stance • Assessment • Iconicity • Chinese Complement Construction • Complement of Manner • Complement of State • Construction Grammar

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/001

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