This paper seeks to provide an answer to why there is so much disagreement on data instantiating the ACC-marked external possession construction (EPC) in Korean; when ACC-marked EP sentences in Korean are licensed; and why EP-encoding multiple-accusative sentences and non-EP-encoding multiple-accusative sentences have the same surface form even though the latter do not have a grammatical internal possession counterpart. By conducting a carefully-constructed grammaticality judgment task, I argue that speakers have variable acceptability judgments for the EPC because of its pragmatically marked nature; a uniform analysis of the construction is not possible but it can be classified into three subtypes depending on the semantics of the V and the Part-to-Whole Spread possibility in the sense of Dowty (2001); and in all grammatical cases, the possessor NP functions as what I call a Topic-Focus, and this explains why both EP-encoding and non-EP-encoding multiple-accusative sentences have the same surface form.
In this article, we develop the first syntax-and-semantics analysis of the evidential raising construction of Chinese as in [Akiu (haoxiang) xihuan he pijiu] de yangzi ‘Akiu seems to like drinking beer’ (not the DP reading that this string has, too: ‘the appearance of Akiu liking to drink beer’). PF reordering preposes...
Daniel Hole, Jun Chen· Journal of East Asian lingui...· 0 citations
This study examines the syntactic and semantic characteristics of the Modern Chinese V起来AP construction based on 247 example sentences collected from the BCC Literary Corpus.Syntactically, this construction primarily exhibits the characteristics of a middle construction, where a theme (patient) subject combines with...
Shinhye Choi· Korea Association of Chinese...· 0 citations
Using the HSK Dynamic Composition Corpus 3.0, this study examines 541 instances of object omission in Chinese compositions written by Japanese and Korean learners. The screened sample contains 277 instances from Japanese learners and 264 from Korean learners. Nominal objects account for 487 cases (90.02%), including 32...
Wen-Pan Guo· Global Education Ecology· 0 citations
The placeholder verb construction, which has emerged relatively recently in colloquial Georgian, offers a unique case study of grammaticalization in progress: the emergence of a structurally innovative type of verb within a language whose verbal morphology is already quite complex. Derived from reanalysis of the event-...
Steven Foley, Nino Amiridze· Natural language & linguisti...· 0 citations
This paper focuses on cross-linguistic differences in the obligatoriness of wh-object fronting in wh-ex-situ languages. In English, wh-objects may generally remain in situ in echo questions, whereas in Russian the fronting of simplex wh-objects has been claimed to be obligatory in request-for-repetition echo question...
Elena Titov· Linguistic Inquiry· 0 citations
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