A Radial Category Perspective on Mandarin Verb Complements
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SummaryIn his treatment of Claudia Brugman’s work on the English preposition over, Lakoff (1987) extends Brugman’s analysis of that preposition as a radial category, one in which the different meanings of the word can be described in terms of a category structured radically, containing with a central sense from which other senses are extended. This type of analysis has been applied to classifiers, as in Dixon’s (1982) famous look at Dyirbal’s 4-way system and Lakoff’s (1987) analysis of Japanese hon, as well as to prepositions such as English over (Brugman 1981) and out (Lindner 1981). In this paper I will attempt to use similar ideas to structure my look at two post-verbal complements in Mandarin Chinese
Table of Contents
- Wrapping Up Wan.
- Some examples of wán adapted from the CALLHOME corpus.
- Event Completion has an extended sense I will call Patient Exhaustion.
- Hao to Write a Good Ending.
- In other usages, h'o denotes attainment that is evaluatively neutral or even negative.
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