Completive verb compounds in modern Chinese: A new look at an old problem
现代汉语的“补足式”复合词
Edward McDonald 马爱德

Abstract 摘要
This article treats the common Chinese verb class of completive compounds (usually called 'resultative'). It shows how traditional 'directional' and 'resultative' compounds should be seen as part of a broader class expressing the general meaning of completive phase. It defines both these subclasses, but concentrates on the resultative subclass as being the least well understood, and develops a classification for it based on collocational groupings of the two parts of the compound: verb and postverb. It also raises questions about the representation of transitivity in Chinese and the intersection of this phase system with it.

本文讨论现代汉语的“补足式”（通常称为“使动式”）复合词。作者建议把通常称为“趋向式”复合词和“使动词”复合词的范围扩大为包括一切有补足功用的复合词。文中给以上两类复合词下了定义，但是讨论着重于一般较少了解的使动式复合词。然后进一步根据复合词的前后两部分（动词和动词后成分）的配搭方式，把复合词分类。最后就在汉语及物性（transitivity）的表达方法和这一动作相（phase）系统中的交叉关系提出一些问题。

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