Compound event nouns of the 'modifier-head' type in Mandarin Chinese

Shan Wang; Chu-ren Huang

Compound event nouns of the 'modifier-head' type in Mandarin Chinese

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Abstract

Event nouns can lexically encode eventive information. Recently these nouns have generated considerable scholarly interest. However, little research has been conducted in their morphological and syntactic structure, qualia modification, event representing feature, and information inheritance characteristics. This study has these main findings. 1) Morphologically, the modifier and the head is either free or bound morpheme. Syntactically the modifier is a nominal, adjectival, verbal or numeral morpheme, while the head is a nominal morpheme. 2) The modifier acts as a qualia role of the head. 3) All heads represent events, while the modifier is or is not an event. 4) The semantic information of a compound event noun can be inherited from the modifier or the head.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PACLIC 25 - Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Pages	511-518
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2011
Event	25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 25 - , Singapore Duration: 16 Dec 2011 → 18 Dec 2011

Conference

Conference	25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 25
Country/Territory	Singapore
Period	16/12/11 → 18/12/11

Keywords

Compound event noun
Head
Information inheritance
Modifier
Qualia structure

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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Compound event nouns of the 'modifier-head' type in Mandarin Chinese

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