The development of resultative and directional verb compounds in Cantonese-speaking preschool children

Also available in print.Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, June 30, 2007.published_or_final_versionSpeech and Hearing SciencesBachelorBachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Science

A predication theory for English resultative and Cantonese resultative dou-constructions.

by Belinda Nga Yee Wong.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-116).Acknowledgements --- p.ivChapter CHAPTER ONE: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND --- p.5Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.5Chapter 2.2 --- θ-Theory and Arguments --- p.7Chapter 2.3 --- Argument Structure / Lexical Syntactic Representation --- p.10Chapter 2.4 --- Lexical Syntactic Representation --- p.10Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.20Chapter CHAPTER THREE: --- ENGLISH RESULTATIVES --- p.21Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.21Chapter 3.2 --- Features of English Resultatives --- p.21Chapter 3.2.1 --- Categories for Resultative Phrase --- p.23Chapter 3.2.2 --- Resultative Phrase as Complement --- p.26Chapter 3.2.3 --- Transitive Resultatives --- p.29Chapter 3.2.4 --- Intransitive Resultatives --- p.36Chapter 3.2.5 --- Subject of Predicate Expression --- p.41Chapter 3.2.6 --- Syntactic Structure of Resultatives in the Literature --- p.41Chapter 3.2.7 --- Change-of-State Linking Rule --- p.45Chapter 3.3 --- Incompatibility of Verbs with Resultatives --- p.47Chapter 3.3.1 --- Classification of Verbs --- p.47Chapter 3.3.2 --- Incompatibility of Resultative Phrases with Stative Verbs --- p.49Chapter 3.3.3 --- Resultative Phrases as Delimiters --- p.50Chapter 3.3.4 --- Incompatibility of Resultative Phrases with Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion --- p.51Chapter CHAPTER FOUR : --- A PREDICATION THEORY FOR ENGLISH RESULTATIVES --- p.53Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.53Chapter 4.2 --- Bowers' Syntax of Predication --- p.57Chapter 4.3 --- An Extension of Bowers' Predication Theory to English Resultative Constructions --- p.60Chapter 4.3.1 --- Introduction of Double Predication Structure --- p.60Chapter 4.3.2 --- The Notion of Causativity --- p.61Chapter 4.3.3 --- More about Conflation and Resultative Verbs --- p.62Chapter 4.3.4 --- Weakness of Bowers' Structure --- p.65Chapter 4.3.5 --- A Modified Structure for Intransitive Resultatives with an Unergative --- p.65Chapter 4.3.6 --- A Suggested Structure for Transitive Resultatives --- p.67Chapter 4.3.7 --- A Suggested Structure for Intransitive Resultatives with an Ergative --- p.69Chapter 4.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.72Chapter CHAPTER FIVE: --- CANTONESE RESULTATIVE CONSXRUCTIONS --- p.73Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.73Chapter 5.2 --- Dou-Constructions --- p.76Chapter 5.2.1 --- The Syntactic Properties of Dou-constructions --- p.76Chapter 5.2.2 --- Null Elements in Cantonese --- p.82Chapter 5.2.3 --- The Status of V1 --- p.83Chapter 5.3 --- Directional Complements --- p.87Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.89Chapter CHAPTER SIX: --- A PREDICATION THEORY FOR CANTONESE RESULTATIVES --- p.90Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.90Chapter 6.2 --- The Syntactic Derivations of Dou-Resultative Constructions with Intransitive --- p.90Chapter 6.3 --- The Syntactic Derivations of Dou-Resultative Constructions with Transitive --- p.93Chapter 6.3.1 --- Base Positions for NP2 and NP3 --- p.95Chapter 6.3.2 --- Redupiication and V' Constraint --- p.98Chapter 6.4 --- Passive Resultatives --- p.100Chapter 6.5 --- A Note on Resultative Dou-Constructions with a Causative --- p.105Chapter 6.6 --- A Remark on V-V Compounds --- p.107Chapter 6.7 --- Summary --- p.109REFERENCES --- p.11

Causative Compounds across Chinese Dialects: a study of Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese

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Aspects in Fengshun Hakka spoken In Thailand: Perfective, Experiential, and Inchoative

This research is part of my dissertation ‘A Study of Hakka Aspectual System’ for Mahidol University and Thailand Research Fund. It aims to explain the syntactic and semantic structures of Perfective, Experiential, and Inchoative aspects of Fengshun Hakka spoken in Thailand. The Hakka aspectual system generally can be divided into two major categories: bounded and unbounded. According to Chappell (1989a, b), the bounded aspect refers to an event containing either the beginning or the end point, while the unbounded aspect refers to an event without a time limit. The bounded situations can be subcategorized into Perfective, Experiential, and Inchoative aspects. To add an interesting view to this study, the Miaoli Hakka dialect spoken in Taiwan, Jieyang Chaozhou, and Mandarin have been compared with the Fengshun dialect to point out real characteristics of the Hakka aspectual system. The comparison with the Miaoli dialect spoken in Taiwan demonstrates how the three bounded aspects of the two Hakka dialects are expressed. The language contact with Chaozhou in Fengshun Hakka is probably pointed out as one factor by which the bounded aspects in Fengshun Hakka are distinguished from those in the Miaoli dialect.Australian National University, Thailand Research Fun

Study of Cantonese gwai2: diachrony and synchrony.

Chan Shuen-ti Roy.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-172).Abstracts in English and Chinese.List of Figures --- p.8List of Tables --- p.9Chapter 1 --- Cantonese gwai2 in focus --- p.10Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.10Chapter 1.2 --- A short description --- p.11Chapter 1.3 --- Goal of research --- p.15Chapter 1.4 --- Organization --- p.17Chapter 1.5 --- On terminologies --- p.17Chapter 1.6 --- On styles --- p.17Chapter 1.6.1 --- Glossing --- p.17Chapter 1.6.2 --- Notations --- p.18Chapter 1.6.3 --- Abbreviations --- p.19Chapter 2 --- Synchronic description of gwai2 --- p.20Chapter 2.1 --- Data in existing works --- p.20Chapter 2.1.1 --- Gwai2 in words --- p.21Chapter 2.1.2 --- Gwai2 with degree modifiers --- p.25Chapter 2.1.3 --- Gwai2 with verbal particles --- p.27Chapter 2.1.4 --- Gwai2 with aspect markers --- p.28Chapter 2.1.5 --- Gwai2 as negator --- p.31Chapter 2.2 --- Puzzles in previous works --- p.36Chapter 2.2.1 --- On terminologies --- p.36Chapter 2.2.2 --- Intensifier --- p.38Chapter 2.3 --- Summary --- p.39Chapter 3 --- Collecting new data: Methodology --- p.40Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.40Chapter 3.2 --- Judgment data and the linguists' intuition --- p.40Chapter 3.2.1 --- Intuition vs. judgment --- p.41Chapter 3.2.2 --- Grammaticality vs. acceptability --- p.41Chapter 3.2.3 --- Factors affecting grammaticality judgment --- p.43Chapter 3.2.4 --- The usual practice --- p.45Chapter 3.3 --- Approaches taken in this thesis --- p.46Chapter 3.3.1 --- Interview --- p.48Chapter 3.3.2 --- Questionnaire --- p.48Chapter 3.3.3 --- Corpus study --- p.48Chapter 3.3.4 --- Modeling grammaticality judgment: Controlled experiment --- p.49Chapter 3.4 --- Conclusion --- p.56Chapter 4 --- Further synchronic evidence of gwai2 --- p.57Chapter 4.1 --- Corpus statistics --- p.57Chapter 4.2 --- Intuitive data --- p.58Chapter 4.2.1 --- Gwai2 and word length --- p.58Chapter 4.2.2 --- Gwai2 and verb types --- p.61Chapter 4.2.3 --- Gwai2 and swear words --- p.63Chapter 4.3 --- Questionnaire data --- p.63Chapter 4.3.1 --- Gwai2 and adjectives --- p.64Chapter 4.3.2 --- "Gwai2, sei2 and degree modifier hou2" --- p.65Chapter 4.3.3 --- "Gwai2, sei2, hou2 and degree adverb gam3" --- p.67Chapter 4.4 --- Experimental data --- p.67Chapter 4.4.1 --- Participants --- p.68Chapter 4.4.2 --- gwai2 and aspect markers --- p.68Chapter 4.4.3 --- gwai2gam3 vs gam3gwai2 --- p.69Chapter 4.5 --- Conclusion --- p.72Chapter 5 --- Diachronic perspective of gwai2 --- p.73Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction to grammaticalization --- p.74Chapter 5.1.1 --- Motivation of grammaticalization --- p.74Chapter 5.1.2 --- Mechanisms in grammaticalization --- p.75Chapter 5.1.3 --- Interaction of reanalysis and analogy --- p.77Chapter 5.2 --- Grammaticalization of gwai2 --- p.79Chapter 5.2.1 --- First stage: gwai2 as an lexical morpheme --- p.79Chapter 5.2.2 --- Second stage: From lexical to functional --- p.81Chapter 5.2.3 --- Third stage: Emergence of adverbial hou2gwai2 --- p.88Chapter 5.2.4 --- "Fourth stage: ""Infix"" and adjective negator" --- p.94Chapter 5.2.5 --- Fifth stage: gwai2 in verbal compounds --- p.96Chapter 5.2.6 --- Independent development: gwai2 and devil negation --- p.99Chapter 5.2.7 --- Grammaticalization and grammaticality judgment --- p.103Chapter 5.3 --- Conclusion --- p.104Chapter 6 --- Formal properties of gwai2 --- p.106Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.106Chapter 6.2 --- Interaction of gwai2 with Cantonese aspectual system --- p.107Chapter 6.3 --- Syntactic category of gwai2 --- p.109Chapter 6.4 --- Interpretation of gwai2 --- p.111Chapter 6.4.1 --- Gwai2 as an intensifier --- p.112Chapter 6.4.2 --- Gwai2 as a modal operator --- p.115Chapter 6.5 --- The syntax of gwai2 --- p.120Chapter 6.5.1 --- Theoretical apparatus --- p.120Chapter 6.5.2 --- Gwai2 in adjectives --- p.121Chapter 6.5.3 --- Gwai2 in resultative verb compound --- p.125Chapter 6.5.4 --- Gwai2 between verb and aspect marker --- p.137Chapter 6.6 --- Conclusion --- p.145Chapter 7 --- Issues unresolved --- p.146Chapter 8 --- Summary --- p.149Chapter A --- Experiment materials --- p.153Chapter A.1 --- gwai2 and aspect markers --- p.153Chapter A.2 --- gwai2gam3 vs. gam3gwai2 --- p.156Chapter B --- Screen-shots of WebExp Experimental Software --- p.160References --- p.16

Development of serial verb constructions in Cantonese- speaking preschool children

"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, June 30, 2006."Also available in print.Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2006.published_or_final_versionSpeech and Hearing SciencesBachelorBachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Science