Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Preliminaries
1.1.1 The resultative construction in Mandarin Chinese
1.1.2 The 把 ba-construction
1.1.3 The acceptability of resultative constructions in Mandarin
1.2 Theoretical framework
1.3 Structure of the book
Chapter 2 Literature review
2.1 Introduction and structure of the chapter
2.2 Resultative constructions
2.2.1 Formal approach
2.2.2 Functional-cognitive analysis
2.2.3 General discussion ofresultatives
2.3 The 把 ba-construction
2.3.1 Syntactic analysis
2.3.2 Semantic analysis
2.4 Combinations of resultative constructions and other constructions
2.5 Corpus studies on Chinese resultatives
2.6 Concluding remarks
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Corpus-based approach
3.3 Acceptability judgement approach
3.3.1 Grammaticality verus acceptability
3.3.2 Traditional ways of making acceptability judgements
3.3.3 Magnitude estimation
3.3.4 Questionnaire survey
3.4 Concluding remarks
Chapter 4 A corpus study of Chinese resultatives
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Motivation for the corpus analysis of Chinese resultatives
4.1.2 Structure of the chapter
4.2 Methodology
4.2.1 Corpus
4.2.2 Two tests for the identification of Chinese resultatives
4.2.3 Criteria for corpus analysis: classifications of resultatives...
4.3 A corpus study of Chinese resultatives: results
4.3.1 Preliminaries
4.3.2 Classification of Chinese resultatives and more dimensions
4.3.3 A general corpus analysis of Chinese resultatives
4.4 A corpus study of Chinese resultatives: discussion
4.4.1 Chinese resultatives: a typological point of view
4.4.2 Chinese marginal and prototypical resultatives
4.5 Concluding remarks
Chapter 5 把 ba + subject/agent-oriented resultatives:acceptability judgements
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Chinese subject-oriented resultative constructions
5.1.2 把 ba + subject/agent-oriented resultatives in Chinese
5.1.3 Structure of the chapter
5.2 The 把 ba-construction: more about high semantic transitivity
5.3 Methodology
5.3.1 Corpus
5.3.2 Questionnaire survey
5.4 The questionnaire survey: results and discussion
5.4.1 Resultatives with and without 把 ba
5.4.2 把 ba + resultatives with and without 終于 zhongyu 'finally'.
5.5 Further implications
5.5.1 Subject/agent-oriented resultatives with postverbal NP
5.5.2 The acceptability of 把 ba + subject-oriented resultatives
5.6 Concluding remarks
Chapter 6 The acceptability of 把 ba + object-oriented resultatives
6.1 Introduction
6.1.1 把 ba + object-oriented resultatives in Chinese
6.1.2 Methodology
6.1.3 Structure of the chapter
6.2 The acceptability of object-oriented resultatives with and without 把 ba
6.2.1 Results
6.2.2 Discussion
6.3 The acceptability of 把 ba + subject-oriented resultatives
6.4 The acceptability of 把 ba + subject-/object-oriented resultatives
6.4.1 Results
6.4.2 Discussion
6.5 Further implications
6.5.1 The acceptability of subject-/object-oriented resultatives
6.5.2 The acceptability of 把 ba+subj ect-/object-oriented resultatives
6.5.3 Subject-oriented resultatives vs. object-oriented resultatives:唱-紅 chang-hong 'sing-popular'.
6.6 Concluding remarks
Chapter 7 Conclusion
7.1 Summary
7.2 Contribution
7.3 Limitations
7.4 Suggestions for further work
References
Appendix A: Chinese Questionnaire surveys of acceptability of Chinese resultatives
Appendix B: English translation of questionnaire surveys of acceptability of Chinese resultatives