Adverbs and Light Verbs
نویسنده
چکیده
Chinese allows manner and degree adverbs to occur further to the left than is possible in English and other languages; compare Amanda will (*loudly) be (loudly) greeting her guests (loudly) with Lisi (qingqingde) ba zhuozi (qingqingde) qiao-le yixia “Lisi lightly knocked once on the table,” with the manner adverbial to the left of BA. It is proposed here that this results from the two languages having different types of light verbs, with Chinese BA and BEI being “lighter” than English auxiliaries like be, and the UG definition of domains for such Low adverbs depending on the nature of light verbs. This result has a number of implications, especially for the analysis of Chinese passives, providing evidence that BEI takes a vP complement rather than an IP, as on some recent analyses.
منابع مشابه
Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-Verbs
Non agentive’ object experiencer verbs (e.g. interest) as well as achievement verbs (e.g. find) are traditionally taken to be incompatible with oriented adverbs like cleverly. Research on large corpora disconfirms this claim. This paper accounts for the distribution of these ’weakly agentive’ verbs with dispositional adverbs (cleverly, patiently) and psychological adverbs (sadly, anxiously), fo...
متن کاملClassifying Adverbs based on an Existing Thesaurus using Corpus
In this paper, we try the classification of adverbs. The method for classifying adverbs is not known well, compared with nouns or verbs. The difficulty comes from vagueness of the relation between adverbs and other words. Using a corpus and an existing thesaurus, we investigate the elements which play an important role in the classification of adverbs. We got experimental results which showed t...
متن کاملJapanese Bare Nouns as Weak Indefinites
Japanese Bare Nouns (JBNs) appear to behave like indefinites in some contexts, and mass nouns in some other contexts. For example, when accomplishment verbs have JBNs as their theme, they are modified by both in-adverbs and for-adverbs. This paper first claims that JBNs are weak indefinites and introduce a variable to be bound by Existential Closure. Second, it shows how telic predicates are de...
متن کاملDetecting the Organization of Semantic Subclasses of Japanese Verbs
This paper describes an approach to detect the organization of semantic subclasses of Japanese verbs. First, we classify verbs along two dimensions: thematic and aspectual. In the thematic dimension, we exploit the pattern of case marking particles which are attached to arguments of verbs. In the aspectual dimension, we exploit the classi cation of adverbs which modify verbs in a corpus. By com...
متن کاملVerbs and Adverbs: Multidimensional Motion Interpolation Using Radial Basis Functions
This paper describes methods and data structures used to leverage motion sequences of complex linked figures. We present a technique for interpolating between example motions derived from live motion capture or produced through traditional animation tools. These motions can be characterized by emotional expressiveness or control behaviors such as turning or going uphill or downhill. We call suc...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012