Serial Verb Constructions Describe Single Events:From the Perspective of Language Coding
Based on 20 oral narrative texts of The Pear Story,we try to answer the question whether or not a serial verb construction(SVC)refer to a single conceptual event by analyzing the process how a speaker uses a SVC to code information in utterance.We find that a SVC,focusing on event process,encodes as its conceptual content the process information such as action with its value,action with its ground,starting and ending,which leads to the conclusion that a SVC refers to a single conceptual event from the process level.We can forecast by the conceptual content of the SVC that SVCs in Chinese can refer to a Related-Event,an Associated-Event,a Contained-Event,or a Motion-Event.
Serial verb constructionone single eventconceptualizationconstrueoral narrative discourse
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