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Unifying two general licensors of completive adverbials in syntax

Linguistics, 2017-03, Vol.55 (2), p.371-411 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Unifying two general licensors of completive adverbials in syntax
Author: Zhang, Niina Ning
Subjects: adverbial ; Adverbials ; aspect ; Classifiers ; completive ; durative ; frequentative ; functional projection ; Licenses ; Licensing ; Mandarin ; Mandarin language ; numeral ; resultative construction ; Syntactic analysis ; syntax ; telicity ; Theme ; verb classifier ; verbal classifier
Is Part Of: Linguistics, 2017-03, Vol.55 (2), p.371-411
Description: It is well-known that an agent-oriented adverbial is syntactically licensed by a functional projection in which an agent is base generated. How is a completive adverbial, such as , licensed? It has been noted that such an adverbial is licensed by either a resultative or an incremental theme in the form of a nominal that is quantified by a numeral (and a classifier in numeral classifier languages). Both licensing conditions encode a bounded scale. This paper argues that the nominal in the special form can be analyzed as an element hosted in a ResultP, and thus the two conditions are also unified syntactically. The evidence for the analysis comes from the syntactic similarities and interactions between such a nominal and the resultative in a VV resultative construction in Mandarin Chinese.
Publisher: Berlin: De Gruyter
Language: English;French;German
Identifier: ISSN: 0024-3949
EISSN: 1613-396X
DOI: 10.1515/ling-2016-0042
Source: De Gruyter Open Access Journals

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