Grammatical Category and Semantic Properties of Dao in Chinese Motion Events
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This paper provides a unified analysis to describe the grammatical category and semantic properties of the word daos in different syntactic positions in Chinese motion events. Grammatically, three syntactic criteria for verbs are used to verify the verbal status of the preverbal, postverbal and postsubject daos. Semantically, this paper proposes that the word dao conflates Motion + Path (Endpoint) and this conflation determines the spatial and temporal boundary of the motion event denoted by dao with reference to the framework of Talmy (2000). Durational time adverbials and frame time adverbials are also used to examine the aspectual properties of dao and we discover that dao denotes a telic motion event which belongs to a Transition of Pustejovsky (1994)’s event classification: State, Process and Transition.
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This paper provides a unified analysis to describe the grammatical category and semantic properties of the word daos in different syntactic positions in Chinese motion events. Grammatically, three syntactic criteria for verbs are used to verify the verbal status of the preverbal, postverbal and postsubject daos. Semantically, this paper proposes that the word dao conflates Motion + Path (Endpoint) and this conflation determines the spatial and temporal boundary of the motion event denoted by dao with reference to the framework of Talmy (2000). Durational time adverbials and frame time adverbials are also used to examine the aspectual properties of dao and we discover that dao denotes a telic motion event which belongs to a Transition of Pustejovsky (1994)’s event classification: State, Process and Transition.
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