The Co-occurrence Restrictions Between Reciprocal Adverbs and Symmetric Verbs and the Event Semantics Analysis of Reciprocity
In modern Chinese,the reciprocal meaning can be expressed by two categories:adverbs xianghu and huxiang,and symmetric verbs such as jiaohuan,jiehun,etc.It is possible for these two categories to co-occur,which was analyzed as redundancy in expression.However,this view cannot explain why there are some restrictions on their co-occurrence.By investigating a certain number of examples,this paper generalizes the restriction as"multi-event mutual scenario for dynamic verbs".This restriction is derived from the different nature of reciprocal meaning between the two categories.Symmetric verbs encode symmetric agent-patient relations in a single event,which is a lexical semantic property,while adverb xianghu/huxiang serves to sum up multiple inverse events or inverse perspectives,which is a kind of operator semantics.As a joint operator on inverse relations,xianghu/huxiang pluralizes events/perspectives when combined with symmetric verbs.
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