TY - GEN
T1 - Arguments of the disposal construction in hainan min
AU - Lee, Hui chi
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper studies the disposal construction in Hainan Min, especially focusing on its argument structure. The ɓue construction in Hainan Min corresponds to the ba construction in Mandarin. Unlike the multiple arguments of ba in Mandarin, the object and subject of ɓue have some semantic restrictions. After examining different thematic roles on the arguments of ɓue, the result shows that the animacy feature of ɓue object affects the grammaticality of ɓue sentences. Furthermore, the thematic role of object of ɓue is mostly Patient, and the subject of ɓue is Agent. Following Dowty’s (1991) proto-roles of Patient and Agent, this paper shows that the object of ɓue tends to match the properties for proto-role of Patient and the subject of ɓue tends to match the properties for proto-role of Agent. The arguments of the disposal construction in Hainan Min are strongly associated with the s-selection of the word ɓue.
AB - This paper studies the disposal construction in Hainan Min, especially focusing on its argument structure. The ɓue construction in Hainan Min corresponds to the ba construction in Mandarin. Unlike the multiple arguments of ba in Mandarin, the object and subject of ɓue have some semantic restrictions. After examining different thematic roles on the arguments of ɓue, the result shows that the animacy feature of ɓue object affects the grammaticality of ɓue sentences. Furthermore, the thematic role of object of ɓue is mostly Patient, and the subject of ɓue is Agent. Following Dowty’s (1991) proto-roles of Patient and Agent, this paper shows that the object of ɓue tends to match the properties for proto-role of Patient and the subject of ɓue tends to match the properties for proto-role of Agent. The arguments of the disposal construction in Hainan Min are strongly associated with the s-selection of the word ɓue.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_41
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_41
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85058327742
SN - 9783030040147
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 486
EP - 493
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Su, Qi
A2 - Wu, Jiun-Shiung
A2 - Hong, Jia-Fei
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018
Y2 - 26 May 2018 through 28 May 2018
ER -