A Contrastive Study on Chinese Resultatives and Pseudo-resultatives

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10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.98How to use a DOI?

Keywords

resultative; pseudo-resultative; causality; contrastive

Abstract

Among Chinese resultatives in existing researches, some resultatives do not express a resultative meaning. Based on the widely accepted definition of resultative in Chinese, this paper holds that some constructions, although in the same form as resultatives, are just pseudo-resultatives since there is no causality between the verb and the result. The contrastive study hereby reveals that resultatives and pseudo-resultatives in Chinese are different in semantics, analytic pragmatics, cognitive mechanism and motivation. Their complement adjectives also have different semantic properties

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Pan Xiaoxia
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TI  - A Contrastive Study on Chinese Resultatives and Pseudo-resultatives
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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