目錄
CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Outline
1.1 The Debate Between Talmy and Slobin
1.2 Outline
CHAPTER 2 Talmy's and Siobin's Typological Theories and Chinese SVCs
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Talmy's Typology Model
2.2.1 Path and Satellite
2.2.2 Three Typological Types of Motion Verbs
2.3 Slobin's Typology Model
2.4 The Core of the Debate
2.5 Chinese SVCs
2.5.1 Li and Thompson's Original Analysis of SVCs in Chinese
2.5.2 Criteria of Defining SVCs
2.5.3 Control Patterns and SVCs in English
2.5.4 Summary
CHAPTER 3 Methodology and Data Collection
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Slobin's Argument
3.3 Properties of SVCs and Searching Method in a Corpus
3.4 The LCMC
3.5 Data of Chinese SVCs
3.6 Not Every SVC Expresses a Motion Event
3.6.1 Motion Event Types and Event Types
3.6.2 The Motion Group and the Non-motion Group
3.7 Summary
CHAPTER 4 Defining Semantic Parameters
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Diagnosis for Subevents
4.2.1 Evidence for Lexical Decomposition
4.2.2 Behaviour of Verbs
4.3 Talmy's Analysis of Motion Events
4.3.1 Talmy's Decomposition of the Meanings of Verbs
4.3.2 Semantic Elements and Lexicalisation(T) Patterns
4.3.3 Summary
4.4 Semantic Structure ofSVCs
4.5 Semantic Parameters
4.5.1 The Four Semantic Parameters in the First Group
4.5.2 The Nine Semantic Parameters in the Second Group
4.5.3 Summary
4.6 Event Relations in SVCs
4.6.1 Li and Thompson's SVC Event Relations
4.6.2 Hwang's Event Relations within SVCs
4.6.3 Semantic Relations and Temporal Relations
CHAFFER 5 Semantic Co-occurring Patterns of Chinese SVCs
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Semantic Patterns Presented by Basic Tables
5.2.1 Introduction to the Seven Basic Tables
5.2.2 'Action+ X' Patterns
5.2.3 'AspectCauseCondition+ X' Patterns
5.2.4 'Deictic + X' and 'Location + X' Patterns
5.2.5 'Manner+ X' Patterns
5.2.6 'Method+ X' Patterns
5.2.7 'Other Spatial Relation + X' Patterns
5.2.8 'Perception +X' Patterns
5.2.9 Summary
5.3 Constraints on the Co-occurring Patterns of SVCs in the Non-motion Group
5.3.1 Description of Table 5.8
5.3.2 Semantic Components Encoded by Both Vls and V2s in the Non-motion Group
5.3.3 Constraints on Vls and V2s in the Non-motion Group
5.3.4 Summary
5.4 Constraints on the Semantic Co-occurring Patterns of SVCs in the Motion Group
5.4.1 Components Encoded by Both Vls and V2s
5.4.2 Constraints on Vls and V2s in the Motion Group
5.4.3 Summary
5.5 Summary of the Constraints on All the Semantic Co-occuring Patterns
5.6 Summary
CHAPTER 6 Discussion of the Non-occurring Patterns
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The PTS as a Pragmatic Explanation for the Non-occurring Patterns
6.2.1 The PTS
6.2.2 Vls Encoding Cause, Condition, Location, Method, and Perception
6.2.3 V2s Encoding Direction, Purpose, and State
6.3 Syntactic Explanation
6.4 Semantic Explanation
6.5 Pairs of Semantic Co-occurring Patterns
6.6 Chinese SVCs Do not Have Equipollent Surface Elements
6.7 Summary
CHAPTER 7 Path Verbs in Chinese
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Linking and Developing
7.3 Sources of Path Verbs and Defining Types of Path
7.3.1 Data Sources
7.3.2 Types of Path
7.3.3 Different Classification of Path Types from Cifuentes-Ferez
7.3.4 Method of Data Collection
7.4 Semantic Analysis of Chinese and English Path Verbs
7.4.1 Introduction
7.4.2 Chinese Path Verbs
7.4.3 Comparison Between the English Path Verbs and the Chinese Ones
7.5 Answers to the Research Questions
7.5.1 Answers to Questions (2a), (2b), and (2c) in Section 7.2
7.5.2 Answer to Question (2d) in Section 7.2
7.5.3 Answer to Question (1) in Section 7.2
7.6 Summary
CHAPTER 8 Conclusion and Further Research
8.1 Conclusion
8.2 Further Research
REFERENCES
DICTIONARIES
APPENDIXES
APPENDIX 1 Chinese Motion SVCs
APPENDIX 2 Chinese Non-motion SVCs
APPENDIX 3 Chinese Path Verbs
APPENDIX 4 English Path Verbs
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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