Syntactic Configuration and Constructional Meaning of Chinese Verb Sentences
The syntactic form of Chinese middle construction is NP +Vqílái/zhe/shàngqù +AP,"NP"is the action recipi-ent;"V"is a bivalent verb;"qílái"is the complement of"V",and some sentences will also appear in the position of"zhe"and"shàngqù","AP"is the descriptive component,and the application of"V"is generally implied.It is divid-ed into three sub-categories:AP for receiving,AP for V-NP,and AP for acting.Chinese middle construction has a unified sentence pattern meaning,it expresses the speaker's subjective comments on the participants of the usual events or the state presented by the events.The emphasis of expression of sentence pattern meaning is slightly different from the semantic direction of AP.
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