Non-canonical objects as event kind-classifying elements

Zhang, Niina Ning

doi:10.1007/s11049-017-9397-5

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“…Secondly, the absence of an agentless presupposition in nco constructions supports Zhang's (2018) claim that such constructions are similar to unergative constructions. Neither of them exhibits an agentless presupposition in the presence of yòu 'again' .…”

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“…If nà 'that' is replaced with the indefinite yī 'one' , the contrast still exists. In my (Zhang 2018) paper, an nco is analysed as a modifier of the event kind denoted by the verbal predicate. Thus, the main point (or the question under discussion) of an nco construction is a special type of the event, rather than any individual in the event.…”

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“…The structure of an nco construction In Zhang (2018), the verb of an nco construction is argued to have an unergative use, and the nco is pseudo-incorporated into the verb, as a modifier of the predicate. Thus, the basic structure of such a construction is similar to (23b).…”

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“…An event variable should be added to this structure, which is necessary in the composition of an eventive structure. Also, as argued in Zhang (2018), if an nco is definite, it undergoes the operation ident (Partee 1986), type-shifted into a property-denoting element, before it is merged with the verb, as an event-kind modifier.…”

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“…This nominal is a non-canonical object (nco) (Lin T.-H. Jonah 2001, Li Yen-Hui Audrey 2014. I (Zhang 2018) have argued that an nco restricts the meaning of a verb, and thus it does not saturate any argument of the verb (cf. Chung & Ladusaw 2004).…”

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Agentless presupposition and implicit and non-canonical objects in Mandarin

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2022

Cah. Linguist. Asie Orient.

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Mandarin Chinese allows implicit, non-canonical, and quantity-objects. The first type is seen in Wǒ zhǎo-guò-le ‘Lit.: I looked for’, which means ‘I have looked for some entity that is known to the interlocutors’. The second type is seen in Lìlì qiē-le nà bǎ dà dāo ‘Lit.: Lili cut that big knife’, which means that Lili cut something with that big knife. The third type is seen in zǒu-le yī lǐ ‘walked one mile’. From the perspective of the interaction of yòu ‘again’ with different kinds of objects, this paper shows that while implicit objects and quantity-objects behave like explicit canonical objects, non-canonical objects do not behave like canonical ones. This paper provides new evidence to support Zhang Niina Ning’s (2018, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 36: 1395–1437) claim that a non-canonical object restricts the meaning of the verb, rather than saturates any argument of the verb. It also supports the internal argument analysis of post-verbal quantity expressions.

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