Attraction or differentiation: diachronic changes in the causative alternation of Chinese change of state verbs

This study examines the interplay of attraction and differentiation through the diachronic encoding of causative alternations in Chinese. A corpus-based analysis is conducted to profile the use of two Change of State verbs (COS verbs), pò ‘break’ and kāi ‘open’, focusing on their argument structure...

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Main Authors: Du Jing, Zuo Shan, Li Fuyin Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2024-11-01
Series:Cognitive Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2023-0094
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