Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.2 Future Research
Although this study strives to take all the perspectives into consideration, there are still some potential issues worth exploring in the future for theoretical implications. Firstly, this thesis have tackled the issues of the contrastive caused-motion pairs of tuī 推 ‘push’ and lā 拉
‘pull’ which usually involve the opposite direction of force manipulation; however, what about other caused-motion verbs such as the synonym sets of tuō 拖, qiān 牽 and chě 扯 which corresponds to the English verb pull. What would be the semantic and syntactic distinctions among these three caused-motion synonymous verbs? Secondly, based on our analysis of metaphorical extensions, are we able to apply this same method in dealing with other metaphorical extensions of Mandarin caused-motion verbs? Lastly, what’s the semantic and syntactic distinctions between the contrastive pairs of tuī 推 ‘push’ and lā 拉 ‘pull’ with other Mandarin caused-motion verbs such as jǔ 舉 ‘lift’ and tái 抬 ‘lift,’ which verb-internally, implicates an upward directional movement.
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