SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Li & Thompson 1989)

SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Li & Thompson 1989)
Type	book
Author(s)	Charles N. Li & Sandra A. Thompson
Publication title	Mandarin Chinese. A functional reference grammar
Publisher	University of California Press
Pages	594-620
ISBN	0-520-06610-3
Annotator	Miaomiao Zhang
Corpus Link	SVC in Mandarin Chinese 4
Framework	functional reference grammar

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Keyterms

Serial Verb Construction

Original Interlinear Glossed Text

(2)我买票进去。. I buy ticket enter-go I bought a ticket and went in.	(3)他/她天天唱歌写信。. 3sg day-day sing-sing write-letter Everyday s/he sings songs and writes letters.	(5)喝点酒壮壮胆子。. drink a:little wine strengthen-strengthen gall:bladder Drink a little wine, and it will give you courage.
(7)我弟弟开车出事了。. I younger:brother drive-car exit-affair PFV/CRS My younger brother had an accident while driving.	(8)我住在这跟他们打交道。. I live at here with they hit-interaction I live here and have contact with them.	(10)他/她骑马抽烟。. 3sg ride horse extract-smoke S/He rode a horse and smoked.
(2)我买票进去。. I buy ticket enter-go I bought a ticket to go in.	(4)他/她上楼睡觉。. 3sg ascend-stairs sleep-sleep S/He's going upstairs to sleep.	(5)喝点酒壮壮胆子。.
(6)我们应该小心不生病。.	(8)我住在这跟他们打交道。.	(9)我们做火车去好吗？.