Chapter 6
Moving beyond motion (verbs)
Article outline
- 6.1Future directions of studies on motion (verbs)
- Motion morphemes and constructions in other genres
- Motion morphemes and constructions in earlier stage of Chinese
- Motion morphemes and constructions in other languages
- Motion morphemes in extended uses
- 6.2Moving beyond motion (verbs)
- 6.2.1The Manner/Result Complementarity in Chinese
- 6.2.2Scale-based classifications beyond motion verbs
- 6.2.2.1A scale-based aspectual classification of verbs in general
- 6.2.2.2A scale-based classification of adjectives
- 6.2.3The Scalar Iconicity Constraint and Chinese word order
- 6.2.3.1The Chinese locative PPs
- 6.2.3.2Distributions of Chinese directional PPs
- 6.2.3.3Distribution of Chinese location PPs
- 6.2.3.4Ordering of multiple adjuncts
- 6.2.3.5The advantages of the Scalar Iconicity Constraint
- 6.3Summary
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