Morpho-Syntax of Non-VO Separable Compound Verbs in Cantonese

Verb-object (VO) separable compound verbs (SCVs), for example, lí-le-hūn ‘divorced’, have long been studied. A small group of non-VO compounds in Cantonese are also separable, but have not yet been addressed. In this study, a preliminary judgment test was used for the first time, to look into the se...

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Autores principales:	Chan Sheila S.L., Cheung Lawrence Y.L.
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2020
Materias:	morpho-syntax separable verbs cantonese Chinese language and literature PL1001-3208
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f790c79dce5e40b3a5ef66ec4fd6d3942021-12-02T15:25:33ZMorpho-Syntax of Non-VO Separable Compound Verbs in Cantonese1017-127410.2478/scl-2020-0007https://doaj.org/article/f790c79dce5e40b3a5ef66ec4fd6d3942020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2020-0007https://doaj.org/toc/1017-1274Verb-object (VO) separable compound verbs (SCVs), for example, lí-le-hūn ‘divorced’, have long been studied. A small group of non-VO compounds in Cantonese are also separable, but have not yet been addressed. In this study, a preliminary judgment test was used for the first time, to look into the separation of non-VO compounds. We found that the separation of non-VO compounds, though limited, is different from that of VO compounds in terms of their ways of separation. There seems to be an effect of the ways of separation and the morphological structures of the verbs on the separability. We also showed that the underlying identity of non-VO SCVs is lexical, as most of them do not have a phrasal form. This group of separable verbs, which was neglected before, could have an impact on related morpho-syntactic theories.Chan Sheila S.L.Cheung Lawrence Y.L.Sciendoarticlemorpho-syntaxseparable verbscantoneseChinese language and literaturePL1001-3208ENStudies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 41, Iss 2, Pp 185-206 (2020)
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description	Verb-object (VO) separable compound verbs (SCVs), for example, lí-le-hūn ‘divorced’, have long been studied. A small group of non-VO compounds in Cantonese are also separable, but have not yet been addressed. In this study, a preliminary judgment test was used for the first time, to look into the separation of non-VO compounds. We found that the separation of non-VO compounds, though limited, is different from that of VO compounds in terms of their ways of separation. There seems to be an effect of the ways of separation and the morphological structures of the verbs on the separability. We also showed that the underlying identity of non-VO SCVs is lexical, as most of them do not have a phrasal form. This group of separable verbs, which was neglected before, could have an impact on related morpho-syntactic theories.
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author	Chan Sheila S.L. Cheung Lawrence Y.L.
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title	Morpho-Syntax of Non-VO Separable Compound Verbs in Cantonese
title_short	Morpho-Syntax of Non-VO Separable Compound Verbs in Cantonese
title_full	Morpho-Syntax of Non-VO Separable Compound Verbs in Cantonese
title_fullStr	Morpho-Syntax of Non-VO Separable Compound Verbs in Cantonese
title_full_unstemmed	Morpho-Syntax of Non-VO Separable Compound Verbs in Cantonese
title_sort	morpho-syntax of non-vo separable compound verbs in cantonese
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Morpho-Syntax of Non-VO Separable Compound Verbs in Cantonese

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