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dc.contributor.authorHuang, C.-T. James James
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-21T20:10:03Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationHuang, C.-T. James. 2006. Resultatives and unaccusatives: A parametric view. Bulletin of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan 253: 1-43.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3353765
dc.description.abstractThis paper capitalizes on two peculiar properties of Mandarin Chinese resultative constructions that pose problems for a general theory of argument structure and parametric theory: (a) the widespread existence of unergative objectless resultatives, and (b) the possibility for both unaccusatives and unergatives to be causativized. It is proposed that these properties are reduced to the single possibility in Chinese (but not in English) for an unergative verb to merge as a manner modifier of an inchoative eventuality predicate BECOME in event structure. This parametric property is in turn reduced to a property of Chinese as a language of high analyticity. In opposition to certain recent models, the paper argues for the existence of a syntax-lexicon macro-parameter.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipLinguisticsen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherThe Chinese Linguistic Society of Japanen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://www.chilin.jp/index_en.htmlen_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/my_papers/2006.resultatives.pdfen_US
dash.licenseLAA
dc.subjectresultativesen_US
dc.subjectunaccusativesen_US
dc.subjectanalyticityen_US
dc.subjectevent structureen_US
dc.subjectChineseen_US
dc.titleResultatives and Unaccusatives: A Parametric Viewen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscripten_US
dc.relation.journalBulletin of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japanen_US
dash.depositing.authorHuang, C.-T. James James
dc.date.available2009-10-21T20:10:03Z
dash.contributor.affiliatedHuang, C-T


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