Unveiling Realization Events: An Event Integration Analysis of “V + Dào” Constructions in Mandarin

Lin Yu

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Unveiling Realization Events: An Event Integration Analysis of “V + Dào” Constructions in Mandarin

Lin Yu^*

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 10, Issue 1)

Received: 31 December 2024 Accepted: 14 January 2025 Published: 10 February 2025

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This study explores the event integration patterns within Mandarin's "V + Dào" constructions, specifically focusing on realization events. The analysis reveals that internal event integration within the verb (IEI_V) can conflate two or three conceptual primitives, demonstrating flexibility in encoding event semantics. Similarly, internal event integration within "Dào" (IEI_D) consistently involves two conceptual primitives. At the constructional level, external event integration (EEI_VD) is composed of 11 distinct combinations of IEI_V and IEI_D, formulated as “2+2” or “3+2,” reflecting various ways in which conceptual primitives are integrated. By the method of correlation analysis and the framework of event integration, these constructions align with the verb-resultative structure (VRes), central to the realization event framework. Hierarchical analysis of the variables in both IEI_V and IEI_D indicates the prioritization of factors such as association function (AssoFun), action properties (ActiPro), and syntactic types. Additionally, the "V + Dào" construction (Chin_VD) shows weak correlations with several variables, suggesting its relative independence in the event structure. These findings point to a high degree of grammaticalization of the "V + Dào" construction in realization events, offering valuable insights into the structure of Mandarin's motion-event constructions. The study contributes to a deeper understanding of the syntactic and semantic interaction in Mandarin event structures and provides important implications for further research on similar Chinese resultative constructions.

Published in	International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 10, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijecs.20251001.14
Page(s)	23-40
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Realization Event, Internal/ External Event Integration, “V + Dào” Construction, Correlation Analysis, Visualization

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