Conclusion

In this paper, with the observation of resultative interpretation shift with some RVPs in the V-part. constructions plus a bare NP as its object and that of the diversity between two types of RVPs in their accessibility with infix -dé- and -bú insertion, it has been suggested that there might be two types of resultative semantics in Mandarin as there are in German and English.

Then, by reviewing the former studies and providing some expressions to enrich the data, it has been found that the traditional VR compounding viewpoints may need some adjustment to incorporate the new data. Next, a hypothesis of -dé- and -dào was established and combined with Kratzer’s proposal to see how the potential mode behaves with the two types of resultatives in chapter 4. Within the same chapter, the combined version of the hypothesis was used to testify the potential mode of the V-part. constructions and find that their linguistic behavior in Mandarin is identical with the two types of resultatives in English.

Finally, the study took advantage of this sameness across languages to explain the two problems observed in chapter 1 and 2. As the problems were solved, it was also proven that there are two types of resultatives in Mandarin and thus the proposal sustains. At the end, some cross dialects evidences were provided to further support the proposal and raise some unsolved issues in the end of the paper.

In conclusion, this paper proposed that there are two types of resultatives, which are the eventual resultatives (ER) and the consequential resultatives (CR), in Mandarin as in English and German. The resultative of the ER illustrates the final state of some activity as a result.

The resultative of the CR indicates to the result of the affectee of the activity along with an

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