Study on the Head of Causative Resultative Verb Compounds from the Perspective of Verbal Aspect
Concerning the head of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds(RVCs),there has been a dispute between the Lexical Head Hypothesis and Functional Head Hypothesis,and between the Unified Head Hypothesis and Separated Head Hypothesis.Having re-viewed previous studies,this article focuses on the lexicalization pattern of causative RVC which denotes the agentive events of state-change.Classifying the first verbal morpheme into three categories:dummy verbs,activity verbs,and accomplishment verbs,endocen-tric construction theory and non-head elements modified theory are used to test the syntactic head.The result shows that the syntactic head is different in the RVCs formed by the three kinds of verbs.
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