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SUMMARY:Transitive psych-predicates In Chinese - Professor Lisa Lai-Shen C
 heng\, Leiden University/LUCL
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CONTACT:Madeleine Forbes
DESCRIPTION:In Chinese languages\, verbs appear to have a lot of freedom i
 n taking non-thematic objects\, i.e.\, locative\, temporal\, instrumental 
 and reason objects. Huang (2006) attributes this freedom to the high degre
 e of analyticity: lexical verbs in Chinese are not conflated in the lexica
 l structure\, and this allows them to have more freedom in the type of obj
 ects they take. Aside from these “non-canonical objects” (a term borro
 wed from Barrie and Li to appear)\, Chinese languages also have dummy obje
 cts (for example with unergative verbs such as run). In both cases\, there
  is already an object slot (either in narrow syntax or in lexical syntax).
 \n\nIn this paper\, I discuss another set of data\,  involving psych-predi
 cates (such as worry and happy)\, which adds to the picture that Chinese v
 erbs have a lot of freedom in taking an object. However\, these are cases 
 that cannot be said to have an original object slot.\n\nI will first prese
 nt an analysis that exploits the presence of a high applicative projection
 . This will be followed with a discussion of the difference between Canton
 ese and Mandarin\, showing that Cantonese always takes the head-movement o
 ption while Mandarin does not. This challenges the view that the high degr
 ee of analyticity is connected to the lack of verb movement (as in Holmber
 g and Roberts 2010)\, as both Cantonese and Mandarin are “high-analytici
 ty” languages.
LOCATION:Lecture Block\, room 3\, Sidgwick Site
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