The Syntax-semantics Interface Of Chinese Telic Category

In the context of "Verb Center Theory" and "Sentence Center Theory",the academic circles place too much emphasis on the traits of verbs or sentences,ignoring the interaction between the "situational aspect" components of the VP layer,especially the effect of[+telicity]situational attributes on the generation and interpretation of complex structures,such as the double-object construction and the predicate-complement structure.Therefore,the syntactic and semantic interface of the telic category,namely the semantic encoding and syntactic representation of[+telic],has not attracted enough attention from the academic circles.This paper attempts to start with the situational analysis of the unlabeled double-object contruction,proves that the[+telic],[-process]features and the achievement situation identities of the transmitted events of the expression,and reveals that its' fugitive result implication is different from the "possession" or "transfer of the ownership",then shows the source of the complex event attribute of the double-object construction-the non-homogeneity of the transfer events;and given that Hoekstra's(1992)"semantic complexity should be reflected by syntactic complexity",and the syntactic reality-the double-object verbs are active verbs,which cannot constitute the achievement situation through the combination of rules and internal arguments,we speculate that there is a ubiquitous result complement "R" after the double-object verb "V",to a certain extent,revealing that Zhu Dexi's(1979)S1("V-V'")and S4("V")class is of syntactic redundancy in the double-object construction classification and the syntactic-semantic parallelism between the double-object construction and the resultative construction;then on the basis of relevant ideas of the Event Syntax,we focus on absorbing the spirit of Travis'(2010)"inner aspect"hypothesis to reveal the syntactic coding and representational mechanism of Chinese[+telic]feature,clearly defining its constraints on syntactic generation and semantic interpretation,and reexploring the generation mechanism of the double-object construction,which belongs to Chinese generalized resultative construction.At the same time,the article points out that the grammaticalization difference of the weak result complement and actual result complement are also reflected by the position of the syntactic merger:the head of Aspin and the bottom small clause PreP.Therefore,there are direct and indirect differences in the representation of[+telic]between the Chinese double-object construction and the typical resultative construction,like "?????",producing the parameter pairs of[+telic]feture category—Rtelic and (?)telic,respectively,reasulting in the telicity prominence and the result prominence structure in the syntax;ultimately,we preliminarily induced the mapping relationship between the[+telic]feature,the resultative complement,and the projection of inner aspect,determined the existence of morphological markers of Chinese[+telic]feature and its mapping from semantics to syntax-that is,the syntax-semantics interface mechanism of Chinese telic category.Moreover,this paper holds that the linguistic characteristics of Chinese expression of "results" also originates from the potential interaction between it and the[+telic]situational attrib utes.