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Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese
- This article examines two so-far-understudied verb doubling constructions in Mandarin Chinese, viz., verb doubling clefts and verb doubling lianaEuro broken vertical bar dou. We show that these constructions have the same internal syntax as regular clefts and lianaEuro broken vertical bar dou sentences, the doubling effect being epiphenomenal; therefore, we classify them as subtypes of the general cleft and lianaEuro broken vertical bar dou constructions, respectively, rather than as independent constructions. Additionally, we also show that, as in many other languages with comparable constructions, the two instances of the verb are part of a single movement chain, which has the peculiarity of allowing Spell-Out of more than one link.
| Author details: | Lisa Lai-Shen ChengORCiD, Luis Vicente |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-012-9095-6 |
| ISSN: | 0925-8558 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of East Asian linguistics |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publishing: | Dordrecht |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2013 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | Cleft; Mandarin Chinese; Verb doubling; Verb movement; lian ... dou |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Number of pages: | 37 |
| First page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 37 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 629 |
