Chapter 4
Classifying Chinese motion morphemes
Article outline
- 4.1The notion of scale structure
- 4.2A scale-based classification of Chinese motion morphemes
- 4.2.1Nonscalar change vs. scalar change motion morphemes
- 4.2.1.1Compatibility with a variety of adverbials expressing manners of motion
- 4.2.1.2Compatibility with a variety of resultative phrases
- 4.2.1.3Compatibility with a variety of directions
- 4.2.2Open scale vs. closed scale motion morphemes
- 4.2.3Multi-point closed scale vs. two-point closed scale motion morphemes
- 4.3A further look into “special” motion morphemes
- 4.3.1来 lái ‘come, hither’ /去 qù ‘go, thither’
- 4.3.1.1来 lái ‘come’ /去 qù ‘go’ as scalar change motion morphemes: The verbal 来 lái /去 qù
- 4.3.1.2来 lái ‘hither’ /去 qù ‘thither’ as non-typical motion morphemes: The complement 来 lái /去 qù
- Boundedness of the complement 来 lái /去 qù
- Punctuality of the complement 来 lái /去 qù
- Functions of the complement 来 lái /去 qù
- 4.3.1.3Summary
- 4.3.2到 dào ‘arrive’
- 4.3.2.1The grammatical status of 到 dào ‘arrive’
- 4.3.2.2The scalar features of 到 dào ‘arrive’
- 4.3.2.3The special features of 到 dào ‘arrive’
- 4.3.3上 shàng ‘ascend to’/下 xià ‘descend from’
- 4.3.4过 guò ‘cross’
- 4.3.4.1过 guò ‘cross’ as a closed scale motion morpheme
- 4.3.4.2The special features of 过 guò ‘cross’
- 4.4A four-way scalar classification of motion morphemes in the Novel Corpus
- 4.5Bound motion morphemes and their scale-based classification
- 4.5.1An overview of Chinese bound motion morphemes
- 4.5.2A scale-based classification of bound motion morphemes
- 4.6Summary
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