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Pivotal Constructions in Chinese: Diachronic, synchronic, and constructional perspectives
Rui Peng
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 8] 2017
► pp. 155–180

Chapter 6
The accumulative expansion of the constructional hierarchy

Article outline
  • 6.1Introduction
  • 6.2Changes in the m-level pivotal constructions
    • 6.2.1The meso I and meso II level constructions
      • 6.2.1.1The manipulative pivotal construction
      • 6.2.1.2The cause-complement pivotal construction
      • 6.2.1.3The descriptive pivotal construction
      • 6.2.1.4The increase in the semantic diversity
    • 6.2.2The micro level
  • 6.3Two-dimensional accumulative expansion
    • 6.3.1The inclusive growth in semantics
    • 6.3.2The stratificational growth with respect to the schematicity level
      • 6.3.2.1The stratificational growth in the meso I level v enf nv 2 and the macro level manipulative pivotal construction
      • 6.3.2.2The stratificational growth in the meso I level v emo nv 2 and the macro level cause-complement pivotal construction
      • 6.3.2.3The stratificational growth in the meso I v pre nv 2 and the macro level descriptive pivotal construction
      • 6.3.2.4The recurrent attenuation of semantic particulars in the process of stratificational growth
    • 6.3.3The cyclical interaction between inclusive growth and stratificational growth
  • 6.4Summary
  • Notes