SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Li 1986, Yeh & Lee 1992, Zheng 1994)

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Serial Verb Construction, multiple predicates

Linding Li
Type	book
Author(s)	Linding Li
Publication title	Xiandai Hanyu Juxing (Sentence patterns in modern Mandarin)
Publisher	Shang Wu Yinshu Guan
Annotator	Miaomiao Zhang
Corpus Link	SVC in Mandarin Chinese 2

Original Interlinear Glossed Text

Linding Li 1 sentence

他打电话叫车。. Tā dă diànhuà jiào chē 3SG beat phone call car

Ching-Long Yeh & Hsi-Jian Lee
Type	conference article
Author(s)	Ching-Long Yeh & Hsi-Jian Lee
Publication title	A lexical-driven analysis of Chinese serial verb constructions
Publisher	Rocling V Computational Linguistics Conference V. O92-1006
Annotator	Miaomiao Zhang
Corpus Link	SVC in Mandarin Chinese 2

Ching-Long Yeh & Hsi-Jian Lee 7 sentences

(1)他有一本书很有趣。. He has a book which is very interesting.	(2)他去学校打篮球。. He wen t to school to play basketball.	(3)我求他代表我。. I begged him/her to represent me.
(4)他有一本书我很喜欢。. He has a book which I like very much.	(5)他说他要去台北。. He said he want to go to Taipei.	(6)五个人坐一辆摩托车很危险。. It is very dangerous that five people ride on a motorcycle.
(21)他去学校找同学打篮球。. He went to school to find classmates to play basketball.

Linjun Zheng
Type	Master thesis
Author(s)	Lijun Zheng
Publication title	An Elementary Generative Syntax of Verbal Constructions in Chinese
Publisher	University of Trondheim (now NTNU)
Annotator	Miaomiao Zhang
Corpus Link	SVC in Mandarin Chinese 2
Framework	generative syntax, LFG, X-bar

Lijun Zheng 2 sentences

(13)老师领来了一个新同学。. Laoshi ling -lai -le yi ge xin tongxue teacher lead-come-Asp one CL new student (The teacher brought along a new student.)

(53)他喝醉了酒。. Ta he -zui -le jiu. (He drank so much that he was drunk.)