Judgment, Extraction and Selective Restriction of Chinese Eventive Verb

Abstract

Eventive verb is a small class of Chinese verbs. Compared with other general verbs, it has different syntactic, semantic features. This article refers the verbs which can follow VP and must describe a complete event with the help of other verbs or the implicit verb as eventive verbs. Based on this, it gives the formal decision criteria of eventive verbs, and makes the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the internal connection and selective restrictions for the eventive verbs, which will be useful to set rules of the verb collocation.