Abstract
The objects of VO verbal compounds are realized in a special way. Owing to the lack of Case, they cannot appear in situ, but have to combine with a preposition (so as to get an oblique Case) or appear in the attributives of Os. VO verbal compounds should be distinguished from VO-verbs, which can assign Cases directly to their objects. Besides, affected by prosody, some adverbials of VO-phrases will leave out the prepositions, appearing like objects, and forming another kind of pseudo-VO verbal compounds.
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Zhuang, H., Liu, Z., Zhang, Y. (2013). VO Verbal Compounds and the Realization of Their Objects. In: Ji, D., Xiao, G. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36337-5_28
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