Abstract
Based on the search in the Sinica Corpus, in this paper I present a novel syntactic observation for pseudo-ditransitive verbs in Mandarin Chinese. That is, the internal argument order of certain pseudo-ditransitive verbs in the previous proposal is not complete. The internal arguments of certain pseudo-ditransitive verbs in fact can have two different orders, which is reminiscent of locative alternation observed in English. Consequently, in addition to the proposed lexical categorization in the literature, it is suggested that Mandarin pseudo-ditransitive verbs should also be categorized based on their genuine syntactic behaviors in order to get a full picture of these verbs in Mandarin verbal categorization.
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Kuo, PJ. (2016). A Corpus-Based Study on Pseudo-ditransitive Verbs in Mandarin Chinese . In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_23
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