Author(s)

Li Yongqing ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Corresponding Author

Li Yongqing

ABSTRACT

The Inverted Resultative Construction is a unique grammatical structure that is frequently used in daily communication in Chinese. This particular construction has gradually gained the attention of language researchers and linguists in recent years because of its frequency of usage and its complex nature. However, studying this construction is not a simple task due to its various types and complex structures, which make it a challenging topic of study. In this paper, we aim to interpret The Inverted Resultative Construction through semantic pointing analysis. We will focus on the semantic analysis of two types of The Inverted Resultative Construction syntactic structures. The first type is "The novel made Mum cry," which indicates that the novel was the cause of Mum's tears. The second type is "A song that cried all the 80s," which signifies that the song was so emotionally stirring that it moved people to tears throughout the entire decade of the 1980s. By analysing these two types of inverted resultative constructions, we can gain a better understanding of how this unique structure is used and interpreted in daily communication.

KEYWORDS

Chinese, The Inverted Resultative Construction, Semantic direction

CITE THIS PAPER

Li Yongqing, Research on Two Special Types of Inverted Resultative Constructions in Chinese based on Semantic Orientation Theory. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 87-93. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070114.

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