A Radial Category Perspective on Mandarin Verb Complements

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Table of Contents A Radial Category Perspective on Mandarin Verb Complements
 Table of Contents

 
  1. Wrapping Up Wan.
  2. Some examples of wán adapted from the CALLHOME corpus.
  3. Event Completion has an extended sense I will call Patient Exhaustion.
  4. Hao to Write a Good Ending.
  5. In other usages, h?o denotes attainment that is evaluatively neutral or even negative.

Abstract

In his treatment of Claudia Brugman's work on the English preposition over, Lakoff (1987) extends Brugman's analysis of that preposition as a radial category, one in which the different meanings of the word can be described in terms of a category structured radically, containing with a central sense from which other senses are extended. This type of analysis has been applied to classifiers, as in Dixon's (1982) famous look at Dyirbal's 4-way system and Lakoff's (1987) analysis of Japanese hon, as well as to prepositions such as English over (Brugman 1981) and out (Lindner 1981). In this paper I will attempt to use similar ideas to structure my look at two post-verbal complements in mandarin Chinese

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