The semantic type system of event nouns : a case study on huìyì ‘conference; meeting’

S. Wang; Chu-ren Huang

doi:10.1075/scld.2.10wan

The semantic type system of event nouns : a case study on huìyì ‘conference; meeting’

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An event noun is a special type of noun that lexically encodes eventive information. This paper examines a typical non-derived Mandarin Chinese noun, huìyì ‘conference; meeting’. It first establishes that huìyì is an event noun through distributional evidences. Then, it explores the semantic type system of huìyì using argument structure, event structure, and qualia structure, based on the Generative Lexicon theory (GL). The findings indicate that non-derived event nouns can represent eventive information and GL is versatile enough to represent such information encoded by nouns.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Increased empiricism : recent advances in Chinese linguistics
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	205-222
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9027271410, 9789027271419
ISBN (Print)	9789027201812
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.2.10wan
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Mandarin Chinese
Generative Lexicon theory
Event noun

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