Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

186 L. MICHELLE CUTRER 3.2.1 Causative/transfer of permission The pattern exhibited by "transfer" verbs in purpose clauses is an ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 187 3.2.2 Non-causativeInon-directives The above discussion has outlined the control o ...

188 L. MICHELLE CUTRER With ask, the unmarked interpretation is that of a directive, which has undergoer control. A to be allowe ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 189 (48) a. John asked Bill what to do in such a situation. b. John asked the professo ...

190 L. MICHELLE CUTRER Indirect questions are examples of core subordination. The infinitival core as a whole functions as an ar ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 191 where arbitrary control predictions can be overridden by speech act or pragmatic c ...

(^192) L. MICHELLE CUTRER Non-purpose core junctures which have actor control, such as commissives and intransitives, may not pa ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 193 way. The affected participant is not the undergoer, but rather, the actor who does ...

194 L. MICHELLE CUTRER nude can be controlled by either John or the model. Thus, the semantics of the state predicate, along wit ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 195 References Bach, Emmon. 1982. "Purpose Clauses and Control". The Nature of Syntact ...

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Serial Verbs and Complement Constructions in Mandarin: A Clause Linkage Analysis* Mark Hansell Carleton College Introduction T ...

198 MARK HANSELL 1.1 Juxtaposition Juxtaposition is a type of SVC that involves two or more sentences with identical subjects ar ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE 199 (1') He put on his coat. He went out. In Mandarin, as in English, (Γ) represents two events that are ...

200 MARK HANSELL where NP 2 is both the object of V\ and the subject of V 2. Li and Thompson make the distinction between pivot ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE 201 (8) a. Wö gei ni. I give you "I give you (something)." b. Wo gei ni qián. I give you money "I give y ...

202 MARK HANSELL . Wö qië xiängchang. I cut sausage "I cut the sausage." a. Wo dui ta shuö huà. I toward him speak speech "I ta ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE 203 2. Complement constructions Complement constructions (henceforth CCs) are serializations of verbs th ...

204 MARK HANSELL verbs, that is, no verbs that unambiguously express a situation where an activity is carried out to its expecte ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE^205 Disposal simply means that the object of the verb is, through the action or event encoded by that ve ...