TITLE:
To Change or Not to Change: A Case Study of “V + Dào” Construction as the State Change Event from the Perspective of the Event Integration Hypothesis
AUTHORS:
Lin Yu
KEYWORDS:
“V + Dào” Construction, State Change Event, Event Integration, Semantic Properties, Syntactic Properties
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.15 No.1,
January
30,
2025
ABSTRACT: This study examines the “V + Dào” construction as a state change event through the lens of the Event Integration Hypothesis. It focuses on how these constructions represent state changes, exploring distinctions between “change” and “stasis”. Using a corpus-based approach, the analysis covers the semantic and syntactic features of “V + Dào” constructions and their event integration patterns. The findings highlight the distribution of agency, animacy, and support relations in state change events, emphasizing the complex interaction of internal and external event integrations and their correlation with the conceptual primitives of change and transition. This study offers insights into the lexicalization and grammaticalization processes of the “V + Dào” construction, and potentially the broader verb-complement constructions in Mandarin.