An Empirical Study of the Chinese Attributive Clauses with Ditransitive Verbs as Predicate Heads and the Co-occurring Syntactic Features in Newspaper Texts
Employing the linguistic data from 2004 to 2005 in the newspaper corpus"Wenhui Bao"of the BCC Corpus,this pa-per chooses 14 Chinese ditransitive verbs as objects of investigation,collects 2 378 attributive clauses containing these ditransitive verbs as predicate heads from the corpus data,and carries out empirical research focusing on the relativization ability of the argu-ments of the ditransitive verbs as well as the syntactic features co-occurring with these attributive clauses.The study comes to the following central conclusions based on the Chinese newspaper texts:(1)The patient displays a stronger relativization ability than the agent and the agent also shows a stronger ability than the recipient,while the tendency for the patient to surpass the agent in terms of relativization is stronger than the tendency for the agent to exceed the recipient;(2)Compared with other types of attributive clauses,the verbal phrase"verb + complement"without any inserted elements and the serial verb phrase"V gěi"appear significantly more frequently in the relative clause where the patient is relativized.
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