The Syntax of Hoo‐Resultatives in Taiwanese Southern Min

This article investigates the hoo‐resultative construction in Taiwanese Southern Min from the syntactic perspective. Specifically, it is argued that the morpheme hoo in hoo‐resultatives is responsible for causativizing an otherwise non‐unaccusative secondary predicate in resultative formation. The r...

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Published in:Studia linguistica 2021-12, Vol.75 (3), p.445-469
Main Author: Wang, Chyan‐an Arthur
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chinese languages
Mandarin
Morphemes
Phonetics
Predicate
Prosody
Southern Min Chinese
Syntactic structures
Syntax
Taiwanese
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Summary:This article investigates the hoo‐resultative construction in Taiwanese Southern Min from the syntactic perspective. Specifically, it is argued that the morpheme hoo in hoo‐resultatives is responsible for causativizing an otherwise non‐unaccusative secondary predicate in resultative formation. The restriction with respect to the occurrence of object pronouns in the sentence‐final position is argued to result from prosodic considerations that ban two consecutive weak constituents from surfacing on the right edge. It is also suggested that the counterpart of this particular hoo in resultatives of Mandarin Chinese is covert and has no phonetic content. This view offers a systematic way to capture several cross‐linguistic contrasts with respect to resultatives between Taiwanese Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese.
ISSN:0039-3193
1467-9582
DOI:10.1111/stul.12156