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This paper aims to study the licensing mechanism of the verbs in a flip-flop construction in Chinese. It is found that the selection of the verbs in a flip-flop construction is constrained by the qualia structure, to be specific, the telic role, of a noun. When the lexical semantics of a verb matches the Telic role of the noun in a preverbal or postverbal ‘Num +Cl +N’, it is licensed and the wellformedness of a flip-flop construction is predicted.
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Wang, C., Chin, W. (2015). On the Licensing of Verbs in a Flip-Flop Construction from the Qualia Structure of Nouns. In: Lu, Q., Gao, H. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_35
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