A Comprehensive Study on “Liang + NP + VP”Construction
Guo Yanhon · Journal of Chongqing Jiaotong University · 2014
Liang + NP + VPis a typical construction frequently used in oral Chinese. The syntactic features ofLiang + NP + VPconstruction are analyzed,and the constructional meaning and discourse function from semantic and pragmatic perspectives are explored. Based on cognitive construction grammar,it explains the generation mechanism of this construction and holds that the constructional meaning ofLiang + NP + VPstems from the interaction between construction coercion and lexical coercion.