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Title: | OBJECT CONTROL VERBS IN MANDARIN CHINESE | Authors: | CHENG YUANCHEN | Keywords: | object control, embedding verbs, object preposing, qu-purposive, raising to object, Mandarin Chinese | Issue Date: | 14-Jan-2021 | Citation: | CHENG YUANCHEN (2021-01-14). OBJECT CONTROL VERBS IN MANDARIN CHINESE. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | This thesis categorizes Mandarin object control verbs (OCVs) into four classes based on their ability to take different embedding sizes, by using a highly systematic approach of applying every single test to every single verb. There is evidence that English embedding verbs can take different kinds of complements, but it has always been hard to tell the embedding sizes in Mandarin because of the lack of verbal morphology. In this thesis, I investigate OCVs’ interactions with different syntactic purposes, such as different material and extractions, to investigate their structural features. My results indicate that different sizes of embeddings for Mandarin OCVs must be distinguished. | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/186854 |
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