Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese

• Main Authors: Peck, Jeeyoung, Lin, Jingxia
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Language; Postverbal Locative PP; Scale
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/136907
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Other than subcategorized argument locative PPs (e.g. 放在桌子上 fàng zài zhuōzi-shàng ‘put on the table’), the postverbal position in Modern Mandarin Chinese can only be filled by limited types of adjunct locative prepositional phrases (e.g. 跳在桌子上 tiào zài zhuōzi-shàng ‘jump onto the table’). Among thes...