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This paper examines the syntactic forms and pragmatic values of the construction "V 〈de(得)〉 you(有) NP" in Mandarin Chinese.The deep structure of this "V 〈de(得)〉 you(有) NP" construction consists of two different syntactical structures whereby "you(有) NP " functions either as the complement or the object of the verb,forming a VC or VO structure respectively.Compared with the well-recognized VC structure,the VO structure is largely neglected and underexplored before,which is the focus of this study.The grammatical components for the subject,the verb and the NP are analyzed based on authentic data.Pragmatically,this construction is used to achieve some special communicative and rhetorical effects.It is concluded that the investigation of Global Chinese must be rooted in the in-depth study of the features of Mandarin Chinese.
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Some scholars think that 'qilai(起来)' has finished its process of grammaticalization,while 'qiqu(起去') has not.This paper points out that serving as complements of verbs systematically is the sufficient condition for judging the grammaticalization of disyllabic directional verbs.In classical Chinese it was quite rare to find complements served by disyllabic directional verbs.But in vernacular Chinese spoken in near-present time,the system of disyllabic directional verbs has already come into being,which is quite similar to those in contemporary Chinese.The paper holds that the existence of 'qiqu(起去)' is irrefutable in history of Chinese,and it is further developing as proved with many new examples.Through reductio ad absurdum we can find that the former conclusion reached with the standard of 'qilai(起来)' is not reliable.
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Ge(各) is a special demonstrative pronoun in normal usage of Chinese, except for its noun usage as surnames. No matter which place it appears in a sentence, it plays the role of demonstrative function. This paper reviewed the usage of Ge(各) thoroughly. From the phenomena "the latter one's control towards the former one", "the former one's control towards the latter one" and "the mutual control of the former and the latter ones" existing in the co-occurrence of two or more Ge(各), and some other verification from writings in the vernacular and classical Chinese, it is proved that Ge(各) should be judged as demonstrative pronoun uniformly. In the 5th and 6th edition of The Dictionary of Modern Chinese(现代汉语词典), which have been tagged the part of speech of words formally, Ge(各) used before verbs were both treated as an adverb, which is improper.
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The author once discussed structures like ' yi pingmi da(一平米大,as big as a square meter)',i.e.the structure of 'numeral-classifier-noun structure+adjective',in which the classifiers are those typically used for measurement like 'pingmi(平米,square meter)'. The paper discusses this structure from another angle,in which the classifiers are nouns used as measurement temporarily,just like 'fangjian(房间,a room)' in 'yige fangjiang da (一个房间大,as big as a room)'.In both cases,'name(那么)' can be used before 'da (大)',which means that words like 'da(大)','gao(高)','kuan(宽)',etc.are not nouns but adjectives.Based on the adjectives denoting measurement,the paper discusses the structure of 'numeral-classifier-noun structure+adjective' from different perspectives.