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A Chinese-English Comparative Study on Non-conventional Verb-Object Collocations in Chinese

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In Chinese language, "verb + non-conventional object" is a very specific and complex structure. Discussions about categories of such kinds of objects have not reached a consensus. This paper employs the "stereotypical relation" to sort out and defines seven kinds of "non-conventional object". It also attempts to explain the syntactic functions of these objects based on a Chinese-English comparative analysis. A hypothesis is eventually devised of how the non-conventional collocations come into being.

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  1. College of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Qiong Wu

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  1. Computer School, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, China

    Donghong Ji

  2. College of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, China

    Guozheng Xiao

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Wu, Q. (2013). A Chinese-English Comparative Study on Non-conventional Verb-Object Collocations in Chinese. 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_81

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