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A Nanosyntactic Approach to Verbal ABAB Reduplication in Mandarin
NING Na
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2025.04.011
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
The study employs the theoretical framework of Nanosyntax to analyze the generative mechanism of verbal ABAB reduplication pattern in Mandarin Chinese. The research characterizes ABAB reduplication as an inflectional operation involving functional projections of pluractionality and aspect. It distinguishes between event-internal and event-external pluralization, as well as inner and outer aspect in verbal reduplication. Following the One-Function-One-Head Principle in Nanosyntax, verbal ABAB form occurs through the merging of categoryless roots that are categorized by little v, with the RED affix syncretizing multiple functional morphemes. This framework reduces lexical burden and precisely represents the unique syntactic structure of Chinese verbal reduplication.
Nanosyntax, ABAB reduplication, semantic interpretation, syntactic genenrative machanism
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, April 2025, Vol. 15, No. 4, 334-338
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