TY - GEN
T1 - Mandarin Analytic Causative Constructions with Shǐ and Ràng
T2 - 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022
AU - Liu, Na
AU - Li, Fuyin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Analytic causative constructions with 使 shǐ ‘make’ and 让 ràng ‘make, let’, commonly used as [NP1 + SHI/RANG + NP2 + VP], are canonical constructions in Mandarin. Previous scholarship has rarely compared the interactions between the two constructions and the verbs in the VP slot. This study fills this gap by using a collostructional analysis. The prototypical verbs, prototypical constructional meanings and distinctive verbs are investigated. It is found that 1) The prototypical verbs used in SHI construction are change-of-state and change-of-possession verbs, whose constructional meaning refers to the change of NP2 in quantity or quality under the effect of NP1; for RANG construction, its prototypical verbs are psychological verbs and verbs of getting information, and its constructional meaning refers to NP2’s perception of something under the influence of NP1; 2) The 17 distinctive verbs for SHI construction are change-of-possession verbs, existential verbs, motion verbs, verbs of phenomenon, change-of-state verbs, verbs of physical manipulation and creation; the 14 distinctive verbs for RANG construction are change-of-state verbs, psychological verbs, verbs of getting information, intellectual verbs and change-of-possession verbs. Although there is overlap in verb categories, the specific verbs which have different preferences for the two constructions are significantly different.
AB - Analytic causative constructions with 使 shǐ ‘make’ and 让 ràng ‘make, let’, commonly used as [NP1 + SHI/RANG + NP2 + VP], are canonical constructions in Mandarin. Previous scholarship has rarely compared the interactions between the two constructions and the verbs in the VP slot. This study fills this gap by using a collostructional analysis. The prototypical verbs, prototypical constructional meanings and distinctive verbs are investigated. It is found that 1) The prototypical verbs used in SHI construction are change-of-state and change-of-possession verbs, whose constructional meaning refers to the change of NP2 in quantity or quality under the effect of NP1; for RANG construction, its prototypical verbs are psychological verbs and verbs of getting information, and its constructional meaning refers to NP2’s perception of something under the influence of NP1; 2) The 17 distinctive verbs for SHI construction are change-of-possession verbs, existential verbs, motion verbs, verbs of phenomenon, change-of-state verbs, verbs of physical manipulation and creation; the 14 distinctive verbs for RANG construction are change-of-state verbs, psychological verbs, verbs of getting information, intellectual verbs and change-of-possession verbs. Although there is overlap in verb categories, the specific verbs which have different preferences for the two constructions are significantly different.
KW - Analytic Causative Construction
KW - Collostructional Analysis
KW - Mandarin
KW - 使 shǐ
KW - 让 ràng
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85161464384
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_39
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85161464384
SN - 9783031289521
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 539
EP - 552
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Su, Qi
A2 - Xu, Ge
A2 - Yang, Xiaoyan
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 14 May 2022 through 15 May 2022
ER -