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Syntax of Aspect and Event Quantifiers: the Case of Mandarin
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KIM KYUMIN (청주대학교)
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Language Research Institute 언어와언어학 언어와언어학 제87호 KCI Accredited Journals
Published
2020.1
Pages
49 - 74 (26page)

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Syntax of Aspect and Event Quantifiers: the Case of Mandarin
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This paper proposes that two types of a verbal classifier in Mandarin, recognized as event quantifiers in the literature, contribute to the internal properties of a predicate, namely lexical aspect (e.g., Smith 1991, Travis 2010). One type of classifier, an event-internal one, has a function of counting the number of an event that took place, and the other type, an event-external one, has a function of counting the number of an occasion in which an event took place. Building on this property of each of the verbal classifiers, this paper proposes that each type of verbal classifiers realizes an Asp(ect) head that represents lexical aspect: an internal one realizes L(ow)-Asp that merges above VP, and an external one realizes H(igh)-Asp that merges above vP. It is further proposed that a verbal classifier that realizes L-Asp takes a VP as a syntactic unit to count, and one that realizes H-Asp takes a vP as a syntactic unit to count. Interestingly, the proposed L-Asp and H-Asp parallel to two syntactic heads associated with lexical aspect in Travis (2010). One of the important consequences of this paper is to integrate the function of counting into the syntax of aspect, which has not been considered as a core aspectual property.

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