The Resultative Nature of the Mandarin Ba-Construction and the German Separable and Inseparable Prefix-Constructions: a Comparative Study

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2001
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Sections 1.0 and 2.0 will introduce the ba-construction and the German prefix construction respectively, and characteristics central to their resultative readings will be focused on. Tools to look at aspect from Smith (1991) will be introduced and applied to these characteristics. Section 3.0 will then draw the first important parallels between the two constructions, and argue why they are comparable. Focus will be on similarities in aspect or temporal structure. Sections 4.0 starts with a discussion of situation types with different temporal structure, and then moves towards more specific analyses of the resultatives in the two constructions. This discussion is greatly informed by Wunderlich (2000)' s analysis of different types ofresultatives, namely the strong and weak resultative. Section 5.0 will reintroduce the issue of pectual structure to this discussion, and discuss logical relations between the components of the resultative structure. Finally, section six fine-tunes the derivational mechanisms for the resultatives in the two constructions.
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