英文摘要 |
BIANLI and FANGBIAN both mean “be convenient” and are often used to define each other in Chinese dictionaries. However, according to the corpusbased study of Chief et al. (2005), the two synonymous items focus on different sub-parts of event: BIANLI on the beneficial role, whereas FANGBIAN on the whole event. This paper aims to further study the event structure properties specific to verbs of convenience. Two types of predicates are distinguished: the pivotal predicate profiling on the result, and the raising predicate profiling on the process. Examples of the most frequent uses are also given in order to help CSL learners to better know the differences between synonyms. |