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The analysis investigates how the result predicate contributes aspectual meaning, focusing on the aspectual shift of the result predicate from state to achievement. It examines consequences for interpreting the aspectual particle -le and reviews competing approaches—lexical, morphological, and syntactic—to explain telicity and result-state semantics. The talk outlines proposals and supporting evidence from state-achievement alternations, lack of lexical accomplishments, and contrasts involving potential constructions and verb-coverb compounds.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/building-resultatives-in-mandarin-10th-semfest-stanford-university/661122/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/building-resultatives-in-mandarin-10th-semfest-stanford-university/661122.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"BigDaveOnline","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-30","2026-10-28",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":19},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What is the main argument about Mandarin resultatives in the talk?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The talk argues that Mandarin has a change-of-state lexical semantic operation that applies to certain stative predicates in resultative verb compounds (RVCs). It attributes the change-of-state interpretation specifically to the result predicate.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does the result predicate affect the interpretation in RVCs?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The proposal claims that the result predicate undergoes an aspectual shift from state to achievement, formalized as a change-of-state contribution to the compound’s meaning.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"Why does the talk focus on the aspectual particle -le?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It states that the proposed account has consequences for how -le is interpreted in Mandarin grammar, linking aspectual meaning to the change-of-state contribution from the result predicate.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},661122,1793158152,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":19,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":129,"read_time":36},962090896214,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","Building Resultatives in Mandarin (from the result)  \n10th SemFest  \nStanford University  \nTham, Shiao Wei  \nWellesley College  \n[stham@wellesley. edu](stham@wellesley. edu)  \nMarch 14, 2009  \n1 Introduction  \n| In this talk I argue for the existence of a change of state lexical semantic operation in Mandarin that applies to (a class of) stative predicates.  \n| Based on an investigation of the aspectual contribution of the result predicate (here gan `dry') in a resultative verb compound (RVC) in Mandarin such as ca-gan `wipe-dry'  \n(1) Sanmao ca-gan le wanpan.  \nSanmao wipe-dry LE dishes  \nSanmao wiped the dishes dry.  \n| I argue that the result predicate encodes the change of state semantics available to the RVC.  \n| This step has consequences for certain basic questions of Mandarin grammar such as the interpretation of the aspectual particle -le.  \n| If correct, it points to the need to continue recognizing change of state as an important semantic category, as argued in von Stechow (1996), Beck (2005), and contra the proposal in Kratzer (2005) to derive state change from causation.  \nOverview  \n| Section 2: the current proposal { an achievement semantics for the result predicate in Mandarin RVCs  \n| Section 3: the data and the argument  \n* State-achievement alternations  \n* Lack of lexical accomplishments  \n* The potential construction and verb-coverb compounds (VCCs)  \n| Section 4: elements of a semantics for RVCs  \n| Section 5: Conclusion  \n2 The issue  \n2.1 Background  \n\\If there is any aspect of resultatives that is completely uncontroversial, it is that they are telic: they describe events with a de¯nite endpoint. In the Vendler classi¯cation, we would say that they are accomplishments or achievements.  \n(Wechsler 2005)  \n| Yet resultatives presumably consist of an activity (the means predicate: wipe in (2)) and a state  \npredicate (the result predicate: dry in (2)) (terminology from Williams (2008)) .  \n(2) Mowgli wiped the dishes dry.  \nQuestion: How does the accomplishment/achievement meaning arise?  \nSome approaches:  \n| Lexical: aspectual shift of means predicate (Rappaport Hovav and Levin 1998) from activity to accomplishment  \n| Morphological: a null morpheme encoding telicity (Snyder 1995)  \n| Syntactic: aspectual structure encoded in syntactic event-structure decomposition (Folli and Ramchand 2005)  \nA common thread: the result predicate typically provides a result state speci¯cation (although see Kratzer (2005)) .  \n| Similar assumptions have been made for Mandarin resultative compounds such as (1) 1  \n(1) Sanmao ca-gan le wanpan.  \nSanmao wipe-dry LE dishes  \nSanmao wiped the dishes dry.  \n| For instance, Fong (1997) adopts Rappaport Hovav and Levin's (1998) template expansion proposal for a Mandarin RVCs.  \n| Under this analysis, the accomplishment structure of a resultative arises from an aspectual shift of the activity means predicate wipe (4a) to an accomplishment event structure (4b), and the result predicate speci¯es the result state (4c) .  \n(3) Mowgli wiped the dishes dry.  \n(4) a. [x ACT \u003C wipe > y] =)  \nb. [x ACT \u003C wipe > y CAUSE[BECOME y \u003C STATE >]]  \nc. [x ACT \u003C wipe > y CAUSE[BECOME y \u003C DRY >]]  \n| Although the actual aspectual categories are not made as clear, small clause-based (Hoekstra 1988) approaches to Mandarin RVCs such as Sybesma (1997, 1999), in assuming that the result predicate telicizes the means predicate, also seem to assume an accomplishment structure where the result predicate speci¯es a state.  \n2.2 The proposal  \n| I show that in RVCs such as (1), the change of state interpretation is contributed by the result predicate, which undergoes an aspectual shift from state to achievement ((5)) .  \n1 A resultative meaning can also be encoded by so-called -de resultatives, where the grammatical particle -de is attached to the verb, and the result is encoded by a following XP (see Sybesma (1999) for discussion):  \n(i) Sanmao ca-de wanpan dou faliang le Sanmao wipe-DE dishes all shine LE ","cbCair6YbPjXtRDo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair6YbPjXtRDo","pdf",135245,16,"English","# 1 Introduction\n## Overview\n# 2 The issue\n## 2.1 Background\n## 2.2 The proposal\n# 3 State and activity predicates in Mandarin\n## 3.1 State-achievement alternations","[{\"question\":\"What is the main argument about Mandarin resultatives in the talk?\",\"answer\":\"The talk argues that Mandarin has a change-of-state lexical semantic operation that applies to certain stative predicates in resultative verb compounds (RVCs). It attributes the change-of-state interpretation specifically to the result predicate.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the result predicate affect the interpretation in RVCs?\",\"answer\":\"The proposal claims that the result predicate undergoes an aspectual shift from state to achievement, formalized as a change-of-state contribution to the compound’s meaning.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the talk focus on the aspectual particle -le?\",\"answer\":\"It states that the proposed account has consequences for how -le is interpreted in Mandarin grammar, linking aspectual meaning to the change-of-state contribution from the result predicate.\"}]","Building Resultatives in Mandarin - 10th SemFest - Stanford University | PDF"]