SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Chao 1968)

SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Chao 1968)
Type	book
Author(s)	Yuenren Chao
Publication title	A Grammar of Spoken Chinese.
Publisher	University of California Press. Berkeley and Los Angeles.
ISBN	978-0520002197
Annotator	Miaomiao Zhang
Corpus Link	SVC in Mandarin Chinese 2

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Keyterms

Serial Verb Construction, multiple predicates

Original Interlinear Glossed Text

等一会儿去!. Deeng i.hoel chiuh! (P 326) 'Wait a while (before you) go!'	去等一会儿！. Chiuh deeng i.hoel! (P 326) 'Go and wait a while!'	拿笔写字. na-bii shiee-tzyh (P 326) 'take pen write characters, -write characters with a pen'
我买份儿礼送人。. Woo mae fell lii song ren. (P 327) 'I buy a gift to give to someone.'	他开车走了。. Ta kai-che tzoou le. (P 327) 'He drove the car and left.'