Pye (1996) is one of the few researchers who first caught sight ofcrosslinguistic variations in the semantic extension of break verbs. His centralfocus is on the differences between English and K’iche’ cut and break verbs.For one thing, with the method of...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    The third intensional domain of pò is concerned with possessive change,namely using something available on hand to exchange for something in need.Things on hand range from money to time and things to be exchanged forinclude goods and events. For instance,...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    As revealed through Ctree and random forest analyses, three of the fourunderlying variables are pinpointed to assume a significant structural weightin the conceptualization pattern of pò, namely MC, FC, and ES. This sectionelaborates how these three conce...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    In Chinese linguistics, Chinese break verb pò has been the central concern.Two of the most controversial issues concerning Chinese break verb pò are:first, whether pò has grammaticalized as a verbal suffix; second, whether pò isoriginally a transitive ver...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    In view of the above mentioned advantages that multivariate methodsdisplay, this study addresses the diachronic conceptual variation of break verbsin terms of a set of multivariate methods, including MCA, Ctree as well asrandom forest.MCA (Multiple Corres...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    Classical linguistics places heavy emphasis on break verbs’ syntacticfunction. In English, break verbs are pervasively identified as a subtype ofchange of state verbs. Their participation in both inchoative (e.g. The vasebroke.) and causative construction...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    To explore the differential weight assumed by each variable in determiningcategory member variation, the dataset in Table 3.7 is further processed throughCtree and random forest. As algorithms of Ctree and random forest have beenelaborated in 3.2.2, this ...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    In chapters 4 and 5, we have restricted our attention to extensional usagesof break verbs, both from word to usage (semasiology) and from usage to word(onomasiology) (Geeraerts 1997: 17, 2006: 77). Those extensional usagesare subsumed under the individual...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    Figures 5.3 and 5.4 are MCA plots that demonstrate conceptual ranges ofpò, qiē, and kāi in EMand and MdMand respectively. The legend and plots areorganized in the same way as in Figures 5.3 and 5.4, thus they are not introducedhere. The first two dimensio...[繼續(xù)閱讀]

    With pò, qiē, and kāi as the research target, three studies are conducted toanswer our proposed research questions.Chapter 4 presents the first study which attends to the diachronic conceptualvariation of extensional pò. The extensional pò’s diachronic tr...[繼續(xù)閱讀]