SHUI Chang-xi
Jinan Journal. 2005, 27(3): 95-100.
Chinese verbs, according to whether they concern property or event procession, can be roughly divided into two types:property or relation verbs and activity or event verbs. The former doesn't possess proceeding features, and the latter possesses proceeding features and can, according to their relative boundedness, be further divided into seven types, namely, initiation, duration, activity, activity-event, event, achievement, accomplishment. They form a boundedness continuum. From the perspective of boundedness, Chinese verbs can be divided into three types, namely, unboundedness, boundedness, and transboundedness. The semantic reference of the temporal phrase in "V+le+temporal phrase+le" pattern changes with the change of V's boundedness feature. When V is transbounded, the temporal phrase is ambiguous.