Aspectual classification of mandarin Chinese verbs : a perspective of scale structure

• Main Authors: Peck, JeeYoung, Lin, Jingxia, Sun, Chaofen
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Chinese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79599; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24032; http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/files/publication/j2013_4_02_9567.pdf
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Previous studies of the lexical aspect of verbs following Vendler (1967) cannot account for verbs of degree achievements (Dowty 1979, Hay et al. 1999, among others). Building on recent studies on ”scale structure” (Hay et al. 1999, Rappaport Hovav & Levin 2010, among others). We introduce a new...