A study on the third interpretation of ‘V+ Duration Phrase’ in Chinese from the perspective of qualia structure

Wei Chin, Changsong Wang*

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摘要

Duration Phrase (i.e. shifenzhong ‘ten minutes’, santian ‘three days’) in “V + Duration Phrase” normally refers to a duration of a certain action or duration since the completion of an event in Chinese. In this article, a less-discussed third interpretation of “V + Duration Phrase” has been put forward to discuss, which refers to the duration of a span (i.e. shelf life of a cake), with the action of the verb being discontinuous in the whole process. It is pointed out that the V in this third reading of “V + Duration Phrase” is not fully lexical, and can be substituted by a semi-lexical verb yong ‘use’ or a light verb as USE. In line with the qualia structure analysis under the framework of generative lexicon theory, this semi-lexical/light verb is found to function as a Telic role of an involved noun of the sentence.

源语言英语
主期刊名Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers
编辑Yunfang Wu, Qi Su, Jia-Fei Hong
出版商Springer Verlag
147-158
页数12
ISBN(印刷版)9783319735726
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 2018
活动18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017 - Leshan, 中国
期限: 18 5月 201720 5月 2017

出版系列

姓名Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
10709 LNAI
ISSN(印刷版)0302-9743
ISSN(电子版)1611-3349

会议

会议18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017
国家/地区中国
Leshan
时期18/05/1720/05/17

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