Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

206 MARK HANSELL but the general possibility of the event occurring. The PC with the NEG marker bu expresses the impossibility o ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE^207 The difference between (19b) and (21), then, involves crucially whether or not actual reading has ta ...

208 MARK HANSELL Clearly the PC constructions kán de döng and kàn bu döng are indivisible units, and the NEG marker bu has scope ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE 209 productivity, and therefore serve best to illustrate the differences between compounds and CCs. 3.1 ...

210 MARK HANSELL simply the definitional distinction that "freely productive" equals "syntac­ tic" and "restricted" equals "lexi ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE^211 b. Ta . he cry "He cries." c. Ta yânjîng hóng le. he eye red ASP "His eyes got red." (30) a. Wo ba ...

(^212) MARK HANSELL 3.3 Potential complement form Another way in which V+V compounds differ from the seemingly look- alike V+V C ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE 213 Ordering of consecutive events Imputation of causality Zero anaphora 4.1.1 Ordering of consecutive ...

214 MARK HANSELL This single occurence of a shared subject is a characteristic of both SVCs and CCs: (31) Ta zuò jichéngchê huí ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE 215 The above examples make clear that the principle of zero anaphora that is needed to describe SVCs ca ...

216 MARK HANSELL serves to make it definite, "the wine", as opposed to the indefinite "wine" in (35'a).) Teng (1975) proposes a ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE 217 cations to be attatched to a small number of different complement construc­ tion types. This approac ...

218 MARK HANSELL 4.3 Problems with treating CCs as SVCs 4.3.1 Modification vs. complementation Chao (1968) considers the distinc ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE^219 an expansion of shu "book", because "brother's book" counts as an instance of "book" but not of "bro ...

220 MARK HANSELL matively but still appropriately paraphrased by (38b-c) and (39b-c) respec­ tively. These examples show that Ch ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE^221 (41) a. NI shi bu shi qïng ta lai chi fan? you be NEG be invite him come eat rice "Are you inviting ...

222 MARK HANSELL The third operator relevant to this discussion is aspect. Aspect is a nuc­ lear operator, and as such has scope ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE^223 This use of nòng with a stative V 2 is identical to the function of causative morphemes in languages ...

224 MARK HANSELL offered by the relation of thematic relations to syntactic roles as mediated by the macroroles actor and underg ...

MANDARIN CLAUSE LINKAGE 225 patient, and actor is the most marked, the argument of "bad" is interpreted as being coreferent with ...