Bare nouns, incorporation, and event kinds in Mandarin Chinese

Luo, Qiongpeng

doi:10.1007/s10831-022-09239-1

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“…Therefore, one should be mindful that BNs in indefinite contexts do not all necessarily appear in standard argument positions when considering the actual data. For the languages in our sample, pseudo-incorporation has been suggested to play a role in Hindi (Dayal 2004(Dayal , 2011, Spanish (Dobrovie-Sorin, Bleam & Espinal 2006;Espinal & McNally 2011), Hebrew (Doron 2003) and Mandarin (Huang 2015;Luo 2022). At the same time, little is known about the extent of pseudo-incorporation in (some of) these languages.…”

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“…Next, we assume with Dayal (2004Dayal ( , 2011 that the availability of Hindi BSs in singular indefinite contexts relies on pseudo-incorporation and we extend this assumption to Mandarin BNs (see also Huang 2015;Luo 2022). It follows from this position that the PA no longer predicts Hindi BSs and Mandarin BNs to be excluded from singular indefinite contexts, but rather that their use should be restricted.…”

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The theory of argument formation: between kinds and properties

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Patil,

Schurr

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Chierchia (1998) developed a cross-linguistic extension to Carlsons seminal work on bare nouns (BNs), producing the most influential theory of argument formation to date, henceforth the Kinds Approach (KA). The core achievements of the KA included the derivation of the generalized narrow scope behavior of BNs and of the existence of generalized classifier languages. There are cracks in the picture, though. The narrow scope behavior of BNs is more fine-grained than is generally assumed and the KA lacks the flexibility to deal with it (Le Bruyn & Swart 2022). The appeal of the KAs derivation of the existence of generalized classifier languages heavily relied on all nouns in these languages being mass-like, an assumption that has since been abandoned (Chierchia 2010; Jiang 2020). These developments call for a reassessment of the KA and one of its closest competitors: Krifka 2003. Krifka assumes nouns never start life as kinds but as predicates, leading us to qualify his approach as a Properties Approach (PA).We adopt a translation corpus approach and assess the explanatory potential of the KA and the PA by comparing the distribution of BNs and related expressions in (in)definite contexts across six typologically different languages. Our results show that the PA has a distinct advantage over the KA and identify pseudo-incorporation and the way it varies across languages as a primary focus for future research.

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Lexicon over Syntax: L2 Structural Processing of Chinese Separable Verbs

Maeng

2023

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This study used online and offline tasks to examine whether proficient Korean learners of Chinese can analyze the syntactic structure of separable verbs in a native-like manner during real-time processing. Separable verbs are considered a unique grammar in Chinese, involving an interface of lexicon and syntax. Despite their lexical status, separable verbs occur in the form of syntactic phrases, with constituents modified by phrase-level rules in syntax. The present study demonstrates that despite native-like offline judgments on the syntactic analysis of separable verbs, the same grammatical information was not utilized in the L2 real-time processing. The results of the experiments indicate that the structural information of separable verbs was employed less in the L2 online processing due to overreliance on the lexical representations of these compounds. In contrast, it was shown that L1 speakers could access both syntactic and lexical information associated with separable verbs during real-time processing. It is suggested that when processing a construction involving an interface of syntax and lexicon, L2 speakers rely heavily on lexicon storage and underutilize structural information.

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Bare nouns, incorporation, and event kinds in Mandarin Chinese

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The theory of argument formation: between kinds and properties

The theory of argument formation: between kinds and properties

Lexicon over Syntax: L2 Structural Processing of Chinese Separable Verbs

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