{"title":"Telicization in Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Qianping Gu","doi":"10.1017/S0022226722000111","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates aspectual meanings that resultative morphemes in Mandarin Chinese contribute to interpretations of the entire predicates, and in particular the culmination readings they bring out of the originally non-culminating accomplishments. Two resultative morphemes are studied: -wán and -diào. I argue that while both morphemes give rise to culmination readings, the culmination readings are derived in different ways. I propose that -wán expresses termination, which comments on the progress of an event. The culmination readings of the telicized accomplishments by -wán are obtained indirectly. By contrast, -diào expresses culmination, commenting directly on the resulting culmination state. The proposed analysis for the two morphemes is couched in the framework defined by Krifka (1989, 1992, 1998), which models the relations between events, individuals, and times as a series of homomorphic relations between mereological part structures. Following Zucchi & White (2001), I analyze -diào in terms of a maximalization over patient, which transfers mereological properties from the individual structure to the event structure, explaining the culmination reading, and -wán a maximalization over time, which transfers mereological properties from the time structure to the event structure, explaining termination, and then transfers the mereological properties to the individual structure, explaining the culmination reading.","PeriodicalId":47027,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics","volume":"59 1","pages":"465 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226722000111","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper investigates aspectual meanings that resultative morphemes in Mandarin Chinese contribute to interpretations of the entire predicates, and in particular the culmination readings they bring out of the originally non-culminating accomplishments. Two resultative morphemes are studied: -wán and -diào. I argue that while both morphemes give rise to culmination readings, the culmination readings are derived in different ways. I propose that -wán expresses termination, which comments on the progress of an event. The culmination readings of the telicized accomplishments by -wán are obtained indirectly. By contrast, -diào expresses culmination, commenting directly on the resulting culmination state. The proposed analysis for the two morphemes is couched in the framework defined by Krifka (1989, 1992, 1998), which models the relations between events, individuals, and times as a series of homomorphic relations between mereological part structures. Following Zucchi & White (2001), I analyze -diào in terms of a maximalization over patient, which transfers mereological properties from the individual structure to the event structure, explaining the culmination reading, and -wán a maximalization over time, which transfers mereological properties from the time structure to the event structure, explaining termination, and then transfers the mereological properties to the individual structure, explaining the culmination reading.
本文研究了汉语普通话中结果语素对整个谓词的解释所产生的方面意义,特别是它们对原本非最终成就的最终解读。研究了两个结果语素:-wán和-diào。我认为,虽然两个语素都产生了高潮读音,但高潮读音的衍生方式不同。我建议-wán表示终止,它评论事件的进展。通过-wán获得的电气化成果的顶点读数是间接获得的。相比之下,-diào表示顶点,直接评论结果的顶点状态。Krifka(1989,1992,1998)将事件、个体和时间之间的关系建模为流变部分结构之间的一系列同态关系,提出了对这两种语素的分析。继Zucchi和White(2001)之后,我分析了-diào的“对病人的最大化”(maximalization over patient)和-wán的“对时间的最大化”(maximalization over patient),前者将气象学属性从个体结构转移到事件结构,解释了高潮阅读;后者将气象学属性从时间结构转移到事件结构,解释了终止,然后将气象学属性转移到个体结构,解释了高潮阅读。
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