Chapter 5
Ordering Chinese motion morphemes
Article outline
- 5.1Collocation of motion morphemes in Chinese
- 5.2Generalizing the morpheme order: The Motion Morpheme Hierarchy
- 5.2.1The operation of the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy
- 5.2.1.1The Motion Morpheme Hierarchy and two-morpheme MCVCs
- 5.2.1.2The Motion Morpheme Hierarchy and MCVCs with more than two morphemes
- 5.2.1.3The Motion Morpheme Hierarchy and the ordering of bound motion morphemes
- 5.2.2Motion expressions “challenging” the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy
- 5.2.2.1Motion morphemes from different scalar classes but in an order reverse to the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy
- 5.2.2.2MCVCs predicted by the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy but rarely found in natural speech
- 5.2.2.3Motion morphemes from the same scalar class
- 5.3Verifying the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy: A corpus study
- 5.4Motivating the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy: The Scalar Iconicity Constraint
- 5.4.1The operation of the Scalar Iconicity Constraint
- 5.4.2The Scalar Iconicity Constraint vs. the RVC account
- 5.4.3The Scalar Iconicity Constraint and three-morpheme MCVCs
- 5.4.4The Scalar Iconicity Constraint and the incompatibility of closed scale motion morphemes
- 5.4.5The two-point closed scale motion morpheme 到 dào ‘arrive’
- 5.4.5.1A possible reason for 到 dào ‘arrive’ to follow closed scale motion morphemes
- 5.4.5.2The functions of 到 dào ‘arrive’ after closed scale motion morphemes
- 5.5Summary
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