View source for SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Yin 2007)

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|italic title=no
|type= conference article
|author= Hui Yin
|editor= 
|pub_title= Serial Verb Constructions in English and Chinese
|publisher= The 2007 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association
|framework= 
|annotator=[[User:Miaomiao Zhang|Miaomiao Zhang]]
|corpus= [http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/ SVC in Mandarin Chinese 2]
|isbn= 
}}

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===Keyterms===

Serial Verb Construction, multiple predicates

===Original Interlinear Glossed Text===

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|(1b)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21409/ 去吃饭]. <br>
purposive SVCs <br>
qu chifan <br>
'go eat'<br>
|(2b)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21410/ 我使她笑]. <br>
causative SVCs <br>
Wo shi  ta xiao.<br>
I  make him laugh <br>
'I made him laugh.'<br>
|(3b)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21411/ 我看他游泳]. <br>
perceptive SVCs <br>
Wo kan ta youyong.<br>
I  see he  swim <br>
'I saw him swim.'<br>
|-
|(5)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21412/ 他拿刀杀一只猪。]. <br>
Ta   na   dao   sha  yizhi zhu. <br>
S/he take knife kill one   pig <br>
'S/he took a knife to kill a pig.' <br>
|(6)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21413/ 他杀死了一只猪。]. <br>
Ta sha si le yizhi zhu.<br>
S/he kill die PERF one pig <br>
'S/he killed a pig (the pig actually died.)<br>
|(7)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21414/ 他拿刀杀死了一只猪。]. <br>
Ta na dao sha si le yizhi zhu.<br>
S/he take knife kill die PERF one pig <br>
'S/he took a knife and killed a pig.'<br>
|-
|(8)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21415/ 我杀了猪 （可是没杀死）。]. <br>
Wo sha le zhu (keshi mei sha si)<br>
I kill PERF pig (but not kill die)<br>
*'I killed the pig but didn't die.'<br>
|(9)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21416/ 我杀死了猪。]. <br>
Wo sha si le zhu.<br>
I  kill die PERF pig <br>
'I killed the pig.' <br>
|(10)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21417/ 我把筷子折断了。]. <br>
Wo ba  kuaizi    zhe   duan   le.<br>
I  OBJ chopstick break broken PERF <br>
'I broke the chopstick.'<br>
|-
|(11)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21418/ 我把筷子折弯了。]. <br>
Wo ba kuaizi zhe wan le. <br>
I OBJ chopstick break bend PERF <br>
'I broke the chopstick bent.' (I squeezed in on the chopstick to break it, but only managed to bend it.)<br>
|(12)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21419/ 我把筷子弯折了。]. <br>
Wo ba kuaizi    wan  zhe    le.<br>
I OBJ chopstick bend broken PERF <br>
'I bent the chopstick broken.' (I squeezed in on the chopstick to bend it, but wound up breaking it.)<br>
|(13)[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1438/21420/ 我把衣服洗脏了。]. <br>
Wo ba  yifu    xi   zang   le.<br>
I  OBJ clothes wash dirty PERF <br>
'I washed the clothes dirty.' (I washed the clothes [e.g., in a lake] but it turned out dirtier than before.)<br>
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