Coverbs and category distinctions in Mandarin Chinese
同动词和词类分析
Claudia Ross 罗云

Abstract 摘要
This paper reexamines the grammatical category status of coverbs in Mandarin Chinese. It considers the properties of coverbs used in earlier works to identify them as verbs, prepositions, or both, and demonstrates that none of these properties serves to distinguish the class of coverbs from the class of verbs in Mandarin, or to identify coverbs as prepositions. It illustrates problems with Li’s 1985 assumptions about thematic role properties central to her Case structure analysis of Mandarin and uses thematic properties to distinguish ba from the class of coverbs. Finally, it accounts for the major properties of coverbs in terms of semantic features, thematic role assignment, and phrase structure configuration.

本文对汉语中“同动词 (coverb)”的语法分类问题进行了重新探讨。在以前的论着中，把“同动词”划分为动词，介词或动词兼介词。本文分析了这些划分的特征，认为这些特征既不能把“同动词”与动词加以区别，又不能证实“同动词”为介词。1985年李博士 (Audrey Li) 提出了关于主题作用特征的设想。此设想是她进行汉语“格”结构分析的核心。本文对她的这个设想提出了一些问题。并运用主题特征把“把”字从“同动词”的词类中区分了出来。最后，本文从语义特征，主题作用及短语结构上阐述了“同动词”的一些主要特征。

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