Syntactic-semantic Approach to Completive Verb Compounds in Modern Chinese and its Contribution to Learning Process

• Authors: Zajdler E.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The correlation of semantics and syntax of the 'verb-complement constructions' in Chinese explains structures which do not have their counterpart in other languages known to the student. The 'verb-complement constructions' (also referred to as completive verb compounds) is a grammatical phenomenon in Modern Mandarin Chinese without any close parallels in other languages. Process of learning the compounds, which form a distinct class of compounds, depends on comprehension of semantic-syntactic relation in the lexemes. In the course of linguistic studies on Chinese the class of complement in the postverbal position obtained a grammatical description. Recently semantic analysis has significantly contributed to the understanding of the directional and resultative compounds' structure. This paper is devoted to the presentation of subclasses of the completive verb compounds along with the new approach to the adjective as a complement.

Keywords

EN

'VERB-COMPLEMENT CONSTRUCTIONS' IN CHINESE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 138-151
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zajdler E.

• E. Zajdler, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Orientalistyczny, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

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CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02565297