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SVCs in disguise. The so-called "directional verb compounds" in Mandarin Chinese

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The so-called directional verb compounds (cf. Li & Thompson 1981: 58) or directional constructions in Mandarin Chinese, ‘V1displacement V2direction lái (come)/ qù (go)’, e.g. bān chū lái ‘transport exit come’ = ‘bring out (towards the speaker)’ are not compounds, but genuine object sharing serial verb constructions in Collins’ (1997) sense. The different positions of the shared internal argument are derived by raising one, two or three verbs to v, each verb adjoining to v as closely as possible (tucking in à la Richards 1997), thus maintaining the relative order between the verbs (cf. Collins 2002). This analysis automatically predicts that the internal argument must follow the verb (sequence) bearing the aspectual suffix, a correlation left unexplained in previous works.
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Waltraud Paul. SVCs in disguise. The so-called "directional verb compounds" in Mandarin Chinese. Andrew Simpson. New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax. Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, 272, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.133-162, 2022, Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9789027210678. ⟨10.1075/la.272.05pau⟩. ⟨hal-03869867⟩
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