Abstract
This paper aims to study the licensing mechanism of the verbs in a flip-flop construction in Chinese. It is found that the selection of the verbs in a flip-flop construction is constrained by the qualia structure, to be specific, the telic role, of a noun. When the lexical semantics of a verb matches the Telic role of the noun in a preverbal or postverbal ‘Num +Cl +N’, it is licensed and the wellformedness of a flip-flop construction is predicted.
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Wang, C., & Chin, W. (2015). On the licensing of verbs in a flip-flop construction from the Qualia structure of nouns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 9332, pp. 352–360). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_35
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