List of tables
Table 1.1
Major periods of the Chinese language (Wang 1980: 43)
11
Table 2.1
The Novel Corpus
20
Table 2.2
Token frequencies of motion verbs in the Novel Corpus
21
Table 2.3
Type and token frequencies of free motion morphemes in the Novel Corpus
24
Table 2.4
Type and token frequencies of MCVCs in the Novel Corpus
26
Table 4.1
Three scalar features determining four types of motion morphemes
74
Table 4.2
Tests distinguishing nonscalar change from scalar change motion morphemes
80
Table 4.3
Tests distinguishing open scale and closed scale motion morphemes
83
Table 4.4
Tests distinguishing multi-point from two-point closed scale motion morphemes
87
Table 4.5
Meanings and frequencies of 来lái /去qù in the Novel Corpus
88
Table 4.6
Meanings and distributions of 来 lái/去 qù
89
Table 4.7
Frequencies of “走
zǒu/退
tuì + 来
lái/去
qù” with a directional PP
93
Table 4.8
Collocation of 进jìn with ground NPs and 来 lái/去 qù in the Novel Corpus
98
Table 4.9
Frequencies of complement 来lái/去qù with respect to ground NP in the Novel Corpus
99
Table 4.10
Nonscalar change motion morphemes identified in the Novel Corpus
113
Table 4.11
Open scale motion morphemes identified in the Novel Corpus
114
Table 4.12
Multi-point closed scale motion morphemes identified in the Novel Corpus
115
Table 4.13
Two-point closed scale motion morphemes identified in the Novel Corpus
115
Table 4.14
Complement 来 lái/去 qù identified in the Novel Corpus
115
Table 4.15
Nonscalar and scalar change motion morphemes as the only motion verb in motion constructions in the Novel Corpus
115
Table 4.16
Type and token frequencies of bound motion morphemes in the Novel Corpus
120
Table 5.1
Motion morphemes occurring in both orders
139
Table 5.2
An example illustrating the frequencies of two-/three-morpheme MCVCs in BCC (literature)
139
Table 5.3
New type and token frequencies of MCVCs in the Novel Corpus
143
Table 5.4
Ordering type and token frequencies of two-morpheme MCVCs in the Novel Corpus
144
Table 5.5
Frequencies of 回到 huí-dào and 回进 huí-jìn in BCC (literature)
155
Table 6.1
Aspectual classification of verbs based on temporal features
170
Table 6.2
A scale-based aspectual classification of Chinese verbs
174
Table 6.3
Simple adjectives modified by comparative 更 gèng and negator 不 bù
177
Table 6.4
The location and direction NPs occurring in pre- and postverbal 向xiàng PPs
187
Table 6.5
The location and direction NPs occurring in pre- and postverbal 往wǎng PPs (Peck and Lin 2019: 109)
188