The Function and Category of gei in Mandarin Ditransitive Construction
汉语双及物句式中「给」的词类与功能
Chu-Ren Huang 黄居仁; Kathleen Ahrens 安可思
Abstract 摘要
In this article, we show that the parallelism between Mandarin gei ditransitive constructions and their English counterparts is misleading. We argue here that the gei that occurs next to a verb is part of a complex predicate, and that the gei phrase that occurs after the DO (direct object) is part of a SVC (Serial Verb Construction). The theoretical implications of this account of gei and some diachronical ramifications are also given.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics volume 27 (ISSN 0091-3723)
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