The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The Formation of the Resultative Construction & Its Effects Book

	Acknowledgments
	Tables
	Abbreviations
	Stages of Chinese for the sake of grammatical evolution
	Transcriptions of the tones in Standard Chinese
	Major chronological divisions of Chinese history
1	Introduction	1
	Theoretical framework	4
	Periodization of the history of Chinese language	20
	The vernacular texts of the present research	21
	Recent research on the development of the resultative construction	23
2	The resultative construction in Modern Chinese	28
	Definition	28
	Syntax	32
	Phonological properties	39
	Syntactic constructions needing a VR phrases	41
	More types of resultative constructions	42
3	The sources of the resultative construction	44
	Serial verb construction	44
	Causative forms in Old and Middle Chinese	46
	The formation of the separable resultative structure	53
	Case studies	59
4	Disyllabification and fusion of verb and resultative	68
	The development of disyllabification tendency	70
	Fusion of V and R	81
5	Idiomatization, lexicalization and frequency of collocation	101
	Frequency and syntactic change	101
	Idiomatization and lexicalization	103
	Case studies	106
	The negative potential form	117
	Theoretical implications	121
6	Structure for the fusion of verb and resultative	128
	The structure of the emergence of the resultative construction	128
	Adjacency and the first appearances of the resultative construction	132
	Structure and extension scope of grammatical markers	146
	Continuity of syntactic changes	151
	The mechanism of analogy	153
7	Semantic relevance	155
	VR phrases and serial verb construction	156
	Ending point and the development of "V + directional verb"	159
	The redistribution of prepositional phrases	161
	Grammatical relation of R and the fusion degree of V and R	166
	Time words	170
	Semantic generality and inflections	173
	Theoretical implications	175
8	Effects on morphology and word formation	177
	Verb inflections	177
	The formation of verbs	180
	The disappearance of causative inflections	181
	Verb reduplication	186
	The boundedness of the predicate	192
	The negative Perfect	196
9	Effects on syntax	203
	The semantics of the patient arguments and their distribution	204
	Grammaticalization of verb in preverbal position	217
10	Conclusion	228
	The development of the resultative construction	228
	The effects on Chinese grammar	232
	Theoretical issues about language change	234
	An area for future research	244
	References	246
	General index	257