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語 言 學 研 究 所
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Institute of Linguistics
第166次語言學專題演講
Serial Verb Constructions in Chinese
主講人
黃惠華 博士
中正大學語言所博士後研究員
時 間：Friday, 10:00-12:00, Feb. 20, 2009
地 點：文學院413室
Abstract:
This talk discusses the linguistic phenomena associated with serial verb
constructions (SVCs) in Chinese, focusing on the following three issues. The first
issue involves the distribution of zhe in Chinese SVCs (i.e., why in some SVCs the
occurrence of the aspect marker zhe with V1 is impossible; why in some SVCs the
occurrence of the aspect marker zhe with V1 is required, and why in some SVCs its
occurrence with V1 is optional).
The second issue focuses on how the verbs denoting different semantic relations
in an SVC involving two and more subevents are combined and how different
combinations of subevents in an SVC are associated with its ambiguous
interpretations.
The last issue focuses on adverbial scope in different types of SVCs (i.e., why an
adverbial such as like ‘immediately’ has scope over the first verb in some SVCs, but
over both or all verbs in others). It is proposed that the occurrence of the aspect
marker zhe with V1 in SVCs requires that both the boundedness of the eventualities
and the temporal structure of an SVC be taken into consideration and that different
temporal structures associated with SVCs have an impact on adverbial modification.