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Syntax Analysis of “A着VP” Structure in Modern Chinese

Yang Young Mae 1

1한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

In modern Chinese, some adjectives can accompany “着” a dynamic postposition, and the adjectival phrase “A着” can combine with a verbal phrase to make the “A着VP” structure. The “A着VP” structure is frequently used in actual linguistic discourse, but there have been almost no studies on it. This study aims to look into the types of the “A着VP”structure through analyzing the syntax of the structure and the adjectives and verbs appearing in the structure. According to this study, the “A着VP” structure can be divided into a connection, modification and predicate-object relation depending on the relationship between “A着” and “VP”. Most of the adjectives appearing in this structure are qualitative adjectives but some may be conditional adjectives. It was confirmed that action verbs with semantic features of [+human description] and [+controllable] mainly appeared.

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