{"pk":26746,"title":"Lexicalization Typology of Realization Events in Mandarin Chinese","subtitle":null,"abstract":"There has been a hot debate on the typological status of Mandarin Chinese in Talmyan framework of Verb-framedlanguages (V-languages) and Satellite-framed Languages(S-languages). However, most previous studies focus on motionevents, while other macro-events (Talmy, 2000) receive little attention. The present study aims to investigate event of real-ization in Mandarin Chinese with experimental method. The analysis of elicited data shows that: (1) predicates of Mandarinrealization events are mostly bipolar resultative verb compounds, which have the semantic feature of [+agent], [+instrument],and [+state change]. This proves that “result” is a semantic prime in Chinese verb semantics. (2) Lexicalization patterns ofrealization events in Mandarin represent more of S-language, but Mandarin also shows the characteristics of V-language. Thedifference between S-language patterns and V-language patterns is significant, and the general tendency is: S-language>V-language. Overall, the results indicate that the lexicalization typology of Mandarin realization events falls into a complementarytypological framework.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69s9c1qh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Deng","name_suffix":"","institution":"Beihang University","department":""},{"first_name":"Fuyin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"Beihang University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26746/galley/16382/download/"}]}