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Head (linguistics)
About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.
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01 Jan 2005
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: This analysis treats the verb copy construction in Modern Chinese as a coordinated VP, with each VP as a co-head, and proposes that the first VP subsumes the following VPs in this construction.
Abstract: This paper presents a formal analysis of the verb copy construction in Modern Chinese. Unlike the previous analyses, in which this construction is analyzed as a single-headed structure with the second VP as the head and the first VP as an adjunct, our analysis treats the verb copy construction as a coordinated VP, with each VP as a co-head. We further propose that the first VP subsumes the following VPs in this construction. We also show that this alternative approach can successfully capture and explain all of the three key properties that characterize this construction.
9 citations