Revisiting Manner/Result Complementarity: with evidence from Japanese and Chinese verb compounds
This paper brings data of verb compounds (V-Vs) from Japanese and Chinese, in an effort to uncover two issues: (a) whether the lexicalisation constraint (i.e. manner/result complementarity) applies to the languages that contain compound verbs; (b) how complex it can be to build compound verb. The f...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Linguistica Asiatica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/2750 |