TITLE:
A Critical Review of “V + Dào” Construction in Mandarin
AUTHORS:
Lin Yu
KEYWORDS:
“V + Dào” Construction, Critical Review, Verb Complex, Mandarin
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics,
Vol.12 No.1,
January
14,
2022
ABSTRACT: As a prototypical verb complex in Mandarin, “V + Dào” construction experiences a wide debate across semantics, morphology, syntactics, pragmatics, and grammaticalization as well. This paper presents a critical review of “V + Dào” construction with its own specificity, mainly including its part of speech, syntactic position, and verb-complement classifications from these various approaches, aiming to provide preliminary exploration and investigation for the study of verb complex and its event integration process in the future.