Chapter 2
Encoding motion in Chinese
Article outline
- 2.1Word formation of Chinese motion verbs
- 2.2Motion verbs and motion morphemes: A corpus survey
- 2.2.1The corpus data
- 2.2.2The motion verbs
- 2.2.3The motion morphemes
- 2.3The motion construction consisting of multiple motion morphemes
- 2.3.1The motion construction consisting of two motion morphemes
- 2.3.2The motion construction consisting of three motion morphemes
- 2.3.3The motion construction consisting of more than three motion morphemes
- 2.4The ordering issue of Chinese motion morphemes
- 2.4.1The motion construction as a type of resultative verbal compound
- 2.4.2Temporal sequence and word order
- 2.4.3Classification of motion morphemes and word order
- 2.5Summary
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Notes