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.