SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Li & Thompson 1981)

SVC in Mandarin Chinese (Li & Thompson 1981)
Type	book
Author(s)	C. Li & S. Thompson
Publication title	Mandarin Chinese. A functional reference grammar
Publisher	University of California Press
Annotator	Miaomiao Zhang
Corpus Link	SVC in Mandarin Chinese 2
Framework	functional reference grammar

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Keyterms

Serial Verb Construction, multiple predicates

Original Interlinear Glossed Text

(11)我们开会考虑那个问题。. wŏmen kāi-huì tăolùn nèi-gè wèntí we hold-meeting consier that-CL problem We'll hold a meeting to consider that problem.	(3)他/她天天唱歌写信。. tā tiān-tiān chàng-gē xiĕ-xìn 3sg day-day sing-sing write-letter Everyday s/he sings songs and writes letters
(19)他/她否认他/她做错了。. tā fŏurèn tā zuò-cuò le 3sg deny 3sg do-wrong CRS S/He denies that s/he was wrong.	(37)他告诉我你头疼。. tā gàosù wŏ nĭ tóu téng 3sg tell I you head ache S/He told me that you has a headache.
(42)大声念课文可以帮助发音。. dà shēng niàn kèwén kĕyĭ bāngzhù fāyīn big voice read lesson can help pronunciation Reading the lesson aloud can help one's pronunciation.	(61)我劝他念医。. wŏ quàn tā niàn yī I advise 3sg study medicine I advise him/her to study medicine.
(76)我碰到了一个外国人会说中国话。. wŏ pèng-dào-le yī-gè wàiguó-rén huì shuō zhōngguó-huà I meet-arrive-PFV one-CL foreign-person know:how speak China-speech I met a foreigner who can speak Chinese.