Studien Zu Seriellen Verbkonstruktionen

This study takes a close look at so-called serial verb constructions against a corpus of data from the Chinese. The author's conclusion is that the construction types dealt with (purpose clause, descriptive clause, resultative complement construction, V-V composites) can be analyzed in terms of a unified serial verb construction schema since in all these cases the post-verbal constructs have the syntactic status of a bare VP. Alongside structural distribution and derivation phenomena the requirements of serial verb constructions with regard to aspect and semantics are also given detailed attention.