The Direct Object Restriction on Resultatives in Chinese and English

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  • Direct Object Restriction on Resultatives in Chinese and English

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This article is concerned about the Direct Object Restriction (DOR) on resultative constructions in Chinese and English. Unlike their English counterparts, it is said that Chinese resultatives do not exhibit the DOR effect. We have demonstrated, however, that Chinese also respect the DOR at the semantic level just like EngIish resultatives, and its prima facie counter-examples can be reduced to the specific morphological process involved in Chinese resultatives, namely the fusion of the argument structures of the host verb and the resultative predicate, which form a composite predicate with a single argument structure. We have argued that the resultative constructions that violate the DOR is actually produced by the fusion of an experincer argument with the external agent argument of the host verb, though this process is restricted to a certain semantic condition.

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