SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Yin 2007)

SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Yin 2007)
Type	conference article
Author(s)	Hui Yin
Publication title	Serial Verb Constructions in English and Chinese
Publisher	The 2007 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association
Annotator	Miaomiao Zhang
Corpus Link	SVC in Mandarin Chinese 2

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Keyterms

Serial Verb Construction, multiple predicates

Original Interlinear Glossed Text

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