Past work in NLP has proposed the task of classifying English verb phrases into situation
aspect categories, assuming that these categories play an important role in tasks requiring …

Movement through space is one of the most basic human activities, but the many languages
of the world do not express motion events in the same way. Hence, studies investigating the …

This work provides an analysis of the quantitative denotations of simple adjectives (base
adjectival forms) in Mandarin Chinese following recent analyses of the 'scale …

The present paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the verbal aspect in general and
with special emphasis on the comparison of Chinese and Slovenian lexical aspect …

The complexity of the directional construction in Chinese involves the following factors:(a) it
can take a single directional item as the predicate;(b) two directional items can cooccur to …

This paper develops Ramchand's first phase syntax theory by investigating the Mandarin
directional serial verb construction. Specifically, the position of the theme argument in these …

This dissertation deals with the semantics of aspect in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth simply
“Mandarin”). Aspect is a linguistic category concerning how situations described by …

It has been observed that Chinese resultative compounds display varied aspectual
behaviors. Yong (1997) distinguishes between simple change resultatives, ie resultatives …

Mandarin Chinese often expresses motion events with more than one verbal motion
morpheme, eg, 退 tui 'recede'and 回 hui 'return'in 退回房間裏 tui-hui fangjian-li recede-return …

This dissertation explores how Chinese verbs and verb phrases can be best understood
given that the boundary between the two categories are non-binary (Lu 1957, Chao 1968 …