Two Types of Verb Reduplications in Mandarin Chinese

This paper analyzes verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese under a lexicalist framework. By adopting the Lexicalist Hypothesis proposed by Chomsky (1970), a distinction has been made between syntactic and morphological verb reduplications by means of five tests: productivity, le insertion, categoria...

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Autor principal:	Xie Zhu
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Sciendo 2020
Materias:	verb reduplication lexicalist hypothesis lexicon productivity Chinese language and literature PL1001-3208
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2d0de83adcc64a3ba87e6d5ba07fee6d2021-12-02T15:25:33ZTwo Types of Verb Reduplications in Mandarin Chinese1017-127410.2478/scl-2020-0003https://doaj.org/article/2d0de83adcc64a3ba87e6d5ba07fee6d2020-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2020-0003https://doaj.org/toc/1017-1274This paper analyzes verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese under a lexicalist framework. By adopting the Lexicalist Hypothesis proposed by Chomsky (1970), a distinction has been made between syntactic and morphological verb reduplications by means of five tests: productivity, le insertion, categorial stability, transitivity, and input/output constraints. It is found that the AA and ABAB patterns of verb reduplication have relatively high productivity and regular syntactic behaviors, whereas the AABB pattern of verb reduplication shows extremely low productivity and syntactic idiosyncrasy. Given these observations, this paper proposes that the AA and ABAB patterns should be syntactic verb reduplications derived at the syntactic level, whereas the AABB pattern should be morphological verb reduplication formed in the lexicon. The two types of verb reduplications have different generative mechanisms.Xie ZhuSciendoarticleverb reduplicationlexicalist hypothesislexiconproductivityChinese language and literaturePL1001-3208ENStudies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 41, Iss 1, Pp 73-108 (2020)
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description	This paper analyzes verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese under a lexicalist framework. By adopting the Lexicalist Hypothesis proposed by Chomsky (1970), a distinction has been made between syntactic and morphological verb reduplications by means of five tests: productivity, le insertion, categorial stability, transitivity, and input/output constraints. It is found that the AA and ABAB patterns of verb reduplication have relatively high productivity and regular syntactic behaviors, whereas the AABB pattern of verb reduplication shows extremely low productivity and syntactic idiosyncrasy. Given these observations, this paper proposes that the AA and ABAB patterns should be syntactic verb reduplications derived at the syntactic level, whereas the AABB pattern should be morphological verb reduplication formed in the lexicon. The two types of verb reduplications have different generative mechanisms.
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Two Types of Verb Reduplications in Mandarin Chinese

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