{"title":"Mandarin posture verbs","authors":"John Newman, Ying Zhang","doi":"10.1075/cld.00048.new","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Posture verbs have attracted considerable interest within Cognitive Linguistics. This study continues this line of\n research by investigating usage-based patterns associated with these verbs when used in their literal posture senses. The data for\n the study comes from the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese and the CALLHOME Mandarin Corpus. We investigate the frequencies and\n distributions of the Mandarin posture verbs 坐 zuò ‘sit’, 站 zhàn ‘stand’, and 躺 tǎng ‘lie’ in four construction types: directional constructions, aspectual\n suffixes, serial verb constructions, and locative constructions. The analysis confirms the primacy of zuò, zhàn,\n and tǎng and, among other results, reveals a significant absence of locative phrases with the dynamic forms of\n the verbs as used with directionals.","PeriodicalId":504268,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"60 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Chinese Language and Discourse","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.00048.new","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Posture verbs have attracted considerable interest within Cognitive Linguistics. This study continues this line of
research by investigating usage-based patterns associated with these verbs when used in their literal posture senses. The data for
the study comes from the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese and the CALLHOME Mandarin Corpus. We investigate the frequencies and
distributions of the Mandarin posture verbs 坐 zuò ‘sit’, 站 zhàn ‘stand’, and 躺 tǎng ‘lie’ in four construction types: directional constructions, aspectual
suffixes, serial verb constructions, and locative constructions. The analysis confirms the primacy of zuò, zhàn,
and tǎng and, among other results, reveals a significant absence of locative phrases with the dynamic forms of
the verbs as used with directionals.
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