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How the Chinese cause-complement pivotal construction has originated from the embedded subordination and further developed in history.
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This paper discusses the diachronic development of the Chinese cause-complement pivotal construction from a constructionalist perspective.
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This is my first try to examine the history of a complex and fully schematic construction from the perspective of diachronic construction grammar. Hope the method is illuminating.
rui peng
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: A diachronic construction grammar account of the Chinese cause-complement pivotal construction, Language Sciences, November 2013, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2013.03.004.
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