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Syntactic Structures of Chinese Serial Verb Constructions

Syntactic Structures of Chinese Serial Verb Constructions

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Syntactic Structures of Chinese Serial Verb Constructions

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Syntactic Structures of Chinese Serial Verb Constructions

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Journal of Chinese linguistics, 2002-01, Vol.30 (1), p.16-38

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This paper examines the syntactic structures of Chinese serial verb constructions with two verb phrases denoting two separate events. It is suggested in Li & Thompson (1981) that this kind of serial verb construction can have consecutive, alternating, purpose, or circumstance interpretation. Although it has often been argued since Li & Thompson tha...

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Syntactic Structures of Chinese Serial Verb Constructions

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0091-3723

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