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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IGT are normally demarcated through indenting, numbering and a space above and under the example. One line of text is followed by one line of glosses and a line with free translation completes the pattern. IGTs from linguistic publications are of particular interest, since they represent a unique alignment of language data and linguistic theory. Example sentences from seminal articles are not rarely quoted in linguistic publications for decades which is another good reason why they need our attention.

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Keyterms

Serial Verb Construction

General Information

This article belongs to the TC Category Interlinear Glossed Text from Linguistic Research.

In this category we collect TCwiki pages that feature Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT) from linguistic publications.

IGT are normally demarcated through indenting, numbering and a space above and under the example. One line of text is followed by one line of glosses and a line with free translation completes the pattern. IGTs from linguistic publications are of particular interest, since they represent a unique alignment of language data and linguistic theory. Example sentences from seminal articles are not rarely quoted in linguistic publications for decades which is another good reason why they need our attention.

In an effort to make IGT more accessible to linguistic research, we try to extract original IGT from linguistic publications and in same cases we provide additional linguistic glosses through a subsequent layer of annotation using the TypeCraft Glosser. In this way we hope to contribute to the re-usability of this data.

On each of the our pages that feature IGT from secondary sources, we also provide a short annotated bibliography, sometimes combined with a list of key-terms which can help to gain a perspective on the research questions raised in the original article. The 'Infobox' may contain further information about the linguistic framework used in the original article, as well as additional classifications of the phenomena treated, whenever that is possible.

Keyterms

According to Li & Thompson, SVC can be divided into four groups:

1. Two or more separate events

2. One verb phrase or clause serving as the subject or direct object of another verb

3. Pivotal constructions

4. Descriptive clauses

Among them, the first group is then divided into four sub-categories:

(i) Consecutive

(ii) Purpose

(iii) Alternating

(iv) Circumstance

Original Interlinear Glossed Text

(2)我买票进去。. I buy ticket enter-go I bought a ticket and went in.(i)	(3)他/她天天唱歌写信。. 3sg day-day sing-sing write-letter Everyday s/he sings songs and writes letters.([i],[iii])	(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.(i)
(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.([i],[iv])	(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.([i],[iv])	(10)他/她骑马抽烟。. 3sg ride horse extract-smoke S/He rode a horse and smoked.([i],[iii])
(2)我买票进去。. I buy ticket enter-go I bought a ticket to go in.(ii)	(4)他/她上楼睡觉。. 3sg ascend-stairs sleep-sleep S/He's going upstairs to sleep.(ii)	(5)喝点酒壮壮胆子。. drink a:little wine strengthen-strengthen gall:bladder Drink a little wine to give yourself courage.(ii)
(6)我们应该小心不生病。. we should be:careful not produce-sickness We should be careful not to get sick.([ii],[iv])	(8)我住在这跟他们打交道。. I live at here with they hit-interaction I live here in order to have contact with them.(ii)	(9)我们坐火车去好吧？. we sit train go good SA Let's go by train, shall we? ([ii],[iv])
(10)他/她骑马抽烟 3sg ride horse extract-smoke S/He rode a horse in order to smoke.(ii)	(11)我们开会考虑那个问题 we hold-meeting consider that-CL problem We'll hold a meeting to consider that problem. ([ii],[iv])	(10)他/她骑马抽烟 3sg ride horse extract-smoke s/He rode a horse while smoking.(iv)
(12)他走来走去 3sg walk-come walk-go S/He walked back and forth.(iii)	(5)喝点酒壮壮胆子 drink a:little wine strengthen-strengthen gall:bladder Get some courage by drinking a little wine.(iv)	(13)他们用手吃饭 they use hand eat-food They eat with their hands.(iv)
(14)我一个人晚上出去很害怕 I one-CL person evening exit-go very scared I'm scared to go out alone at night. (iv)	(15)他念书心很专 3sg study-book heart very engrossed When he's studying, he's very engrossed. (iv)	(16)那个老师说话爱转文 that-CL teacher say-word love overuse:literary:words That teacher loves to flaunt literary words when s/he talks. (iv)
(18)我要他过来 I want 3sg cross-come I want him/her to comee over here.	(19)他否认他做错了 3sg deny 3sg do-wrong CRS He denies that he was wrong.	(20)他情愿他的孩子念书 3sg prefer 3sg-GEN child study-book He prefers his children to study.
(21)他只装不知道 3sg only pretend not know He's only pretending not to know.	(22)我盼望你快一点毕业 I hope you soon a:little graduate I hope you'll graduate a bit sooner.	(23)我恐怕你来不及 I fear you can't:make:it:in:time I'm afraid you can't make it in time.
(24)我以为你姓侯 I mistakenly:thought you surname Hou I mistakenly thought your surname was Hou.	(25)我没想到你住在南京 I not think-arrive you live at Nanjing I didn't realize you lived in Nanjing.	(26)我坚持我没犯法 I insist I not violate-law I insist that I didn't violate any law.
(27)我习惯早点吃得非常少 I be:accustomed breakfast eat CSC extremely little I'm used to eating very little for breakfast.	(28)他梦想做英雄 3sg dream serve:as hero He dreamed that he would be a hero.	(29)她很讲究穿衣服 3sg very particular wear clothes She's very particular about her clothes.
(30)我们禁止抽烟 we prohibit extract-smoke We prohibit smoking.	(31)我感到很惭愧 I feel very embarrassed I feel very embarrassed.	(33a)我觉得你不应该去 I feel you not should go I think you shouldn't go.
(33b)*我感到你不应该去 I feel you not should go	(35)他提议我们都去吃饺子 3sg suggest we all go eat dumplings He suggested that we all go eat dumplings.	(36)他没想到我们都去吃饺子 3sg not think-arrive we all go eat dumplings He didn't realize that we'd all gone to eat dumplings.