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Topic: A Study into the Prototypicality of Chinese Labile Verbs 

Author/Speaker: Liulin Zhang 

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A Study into the Prototypicality of Chinese Labile Verbs

Liulin Zhang

Liulin, Zhang. 2019. A Study into the Prototypicality of Chinese Labile Verbs. Cognitive Semantics, (5)1:1-31.

Abstract

Trying to situate Chinese into the typology of labile verbs (verbs that may be used transitively or intransitively), this paper analyzes Chinese labile verbals under the framework of cognitive construction grammar. By exhaustively looking at labile ver¬bals in a small corpus, it is found that as an isolating language in which causative (tran¬sitive use) or anticausative (intransitive use) is not morphologically marked, Chinese is particularly rich in labile verbals. After estimating how often several target verbals are used transitively and intransitively, two factors grounded in human cognition are revealed determining verbal lability in Chinese: change of state and spontaneity of the event. Change-of-state events give way to two competing profiling strategies, realized as a transitive construction and an intransitive construction, respectively. The degree and direction (transitive-dominated or intransitive-dominated) of verbal lability are sensitive to the likelihood of spontaneous occurrence of the event.

Author/Speaker

张榴琳，苏州大学文学院讲师，优秀青年学者，夏威夷大学马诺分校东亚语言与文学博士，曾于美国杜鲁门州立大学担任中文助理教授。主要研究兴趣包括汉语语法、认知语言学和构式语法，有多篇论文发表在国际期刊上，包括Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación （SSCI收录）、Cognitive Semantics、Chinese as a Second Language Research等。所主持项目《汉语中的主宾转换现象和状态改变构式研究》2020年获国家社科基金后期资助项目资助，另外曾获得多项教学、科研奖励。个人主页：www.liulinzhang.cometc.

Liulin Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Chinese at Soochow University. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Mostly focusing on Chinese, her research interests include cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, and psycholinguistics. Oriented at the relationship between language and cognition, her research primarily approaches cognition via lexical semantics, the conceptual schemas underlying language constructions and the interaction between them. Based upon the contrast between Chinese and other languages, and utilizing corpus data and experimentation, she has been trying to bring to light some general characteristics of human conceptualization, as well as the special features of Chinese that need to be accounted for by extra-linguistic knowledge including culture, geography, history, etc.

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