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een widely recognized,but its semantic classification is worthdiscussing.The second point is“the meaning of the content-function word”.Those whohold this view generalize the semantic meaning of the postpositional component of verbsinto content words and function words.For example,Liu Shuxin(1985)believes that thesemantic meaning of“lai”should be divided into content words and function words.Thesemantics of the content words including:(a)someone moves from elsewhere to thespeaker.(b)things move from elsewhere to the speaker.(c)someone has the ability to dosomething.The semantics of function word involves what is the tendency of themovement or state that the verb refers to in the realization.

Chapter Three Theoretical Framework ..................................................... 14

3.1 Event Integration ............................. 14

3.2 Macro-event ................................ 15

Chapter Four Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Verb-directional Construction “V lai” ...................... 30

4.1 Data Collection ............................. 30

4.2 Macro-event Characterized by “V lai ” ........................ 33 

Chapter Five Cognitive Mechanisms behind the Semantic Extension of “V lai” ................................ 50

5.1 Metaphorical Mappings in the Time Domain ...................... 50

5.2 Metaphtonymic Mappings in the State Domain .................... 53 

Chapter Six Non-macro-event Characterizedby“V lai”

6.1 Purposive Marker

The most important way to express the purpose relation in Chinese is to usepurposive markers,such as“为了”“以便”“好让”.In addition to the obvious purposivemarkers,the purpose category also has some fixed unmarked forms that express thepurpose relationship and serial verb construction belongs to it.The main feature of theform is that there is no obvious marker,but a logical“Purpose-Behavior”semanticrelationship between two components.Therefore,the purpose relationship must be expressed through the logical semantic relationship between its internal verb components.The basic meaning of“lai”in modern Chinese is to indicate the direction of displacement,but the meaning of“lai”is bleaching in the serial verb construction“V lai VP”.Themeaning of“lai”changes from a verb that indicates“direction”to a marker that indicatesthe purpose of the action after V.When“lai”serves as purposive marker,it oftenconnects prepositional phrases and verb phrases,and the former one denotes manner orattitude of the action,while the latter denotes the purpose of the action.For instance:Example(9):

a.于是订了口头上的条约，房租归老人们收来做零用。b.这个钵我要留来自用，只有把我的狗皮褂子脱与他穿。c.前日惠姑娘送来的一坛子酱肉，还不曾开封，正好拿来下酒。

Chapter Seven Conclusion

7.1 Major Findings

The research findings are summarized as follows:

Firstly,the polysemous verb-directional construction“V lai”is able to characterizeall five types of macro-event:To be specific,the verb-directional construction“V lai”with directional meaning characterize motion event;the verb-direction construction“Vlai”with temporal meaning characterize temporal contouring event;the verb-directionconstruction“V lai”with state本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。