Based on the result of this research, there are some potential issues await to be explored in the future. Firstly, as discussed previously that there are force interaction verbs denoting bilateral interactions. A more delicate investigation on these verbs16 and a comparision between two force clines will be interesting to tackle. Is there a clean cut in between unilateral FIVs and bilateral FIVs in Mandarin? Secondly, since the interaction discussed here is in between two distinct force-exerting parties, verbs that denote internal struggles of a single force-exerting party is interesting to investigate as well. It is for sure that there are many dimensions to look at the concept of force. However, it is our goal to provide an analysis from a frame-based perspective as well as to arouse more interests from other domains.
16 The Bilateral cline will be conducted by Lai (2011) in our research group shortly.
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