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- Debates persist on how to correctly represent verb phrases in Mandarin Chinese, focusing on the roles of the verb, its complement, and the aspectual marker - .
- A study involving 216 five-year-olds was conducted using syntactic priming to explore the SVO and SOV structures, revealing that both the complement and marker - should be seen as phrasal entities rather than just morphological ones.
- Results suggest that event description in Mandarin requires a specific structure, where elements after the verb represent their own phrases, challenging traditional verb-centered linguistic models and raising questions about agent-patient roles in grammar across languages.
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Debates regarding how to represent verb phrases (VPs) consisting of the verb plus the complement and the aspectual marker - in Mandarin Chinese remain an issue. Syntactic priming under a memory disguise paradigm was employed to investigate the issue using the SVO- alternation, where the SVO structure consists of a subject verb object, and the structure of a subject object verb, in five-year-olds ( = 216), an age with fully fledged grammatical knowledge but little interference from literacy. The results indicate that both the complement and the marker - should be represented in terms of phrasal rather than morphological structures. When - is inflected to the verb alone, realization, which makes an event a fact, rather than completion, which makes an event finished, is accomplished. The event must be telicized to a state through a resultative complement to induce reliable production of the construction. The postverbal elements represent their own phrasal structure and challenge the verb-centered lexico-syntactic account because there are no additional representations left within a verb. More elicitations of the SVO than the invite future neurolinguistic explorations to disentangle the impacts of the frequency and thematic arrangement of agent and patient on grammatical representations cross-linguistically.
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