Chinese Middle Constructions by Jiajuan Xiong

Author:Jiajuan Xiong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

The morpholexical rule of (9) successfully captures argument reduction induced by the presence of hao or nan. However, this analysis leaves the discrepancies between the hao and the nan construction shown in Sect. 4.2.2 unaccounted for.

4.3.1.2 He (2010)

He (2010) subsumes both hao and rongyi constructions under the term “middle construction” and analyzes them as being formed out of complex adjectival predicates, as represented in (10). In his analysis, hao and rongyi are treated as adjectival predicates which take verb phrases as their complements. In addition, the hao and rongyi constructions are analyzed to express the control relation, i.e., the subject of the main predicate controls the object of the verbal complement, shown by the index of j attached to both the subject DP and the logical object PRO.

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