Though Mandarin Chinese is a prepositional language, postpositions, named as localizers, occur in the language.#

Adpositions in Mandarin Chinese#

Easy Examples, only prepositions#

hard examples, coverb + localizer#

Both coverbs and localizers are categories in Chinese grammar that bear some relationship to adpositions. As exemplified below, xuéshù (i.e. 'academia') is surrounded by a coverb zài and a localizer shàng. Though coverbs frequently cooccur with localizers, the combinations are somewhat productive, so we treat them as separate targets for SNACS annotation.#



he.3SG

zài
at
学术
xuéshù
academia

shàng
on-top-of
有所作为
yǒusuǒzuòwéi
successful

'He successed in academia.' zh001

- Coverbs#

Coverbs usually precede the main predicate of the clause and introduce an NP argument to it. In this project, We annotate all coverbs that occur pre-verbally and coverbs that function as the main predicate are not annotated for supersenses.#

- Localizers#

Localizers are words that follow a noun phrase to refine its semantic relation. We annotate all localizers that occur as postpositions syntactically.#

BA and DE#

Discuss new construals#

New construals#

ExperiencerExperiencer#

examples#

BeneficiaryExperiencer#

BeneficiaryPurpose#

PartPortionLocus#

CircumstanceAccompanier#

CircumstanceTime#

Corpora

Adpositions (77)

The number of construals (role/function combinations) in a usage with each adposition is shown in parentheses.

Single-word (77)
Multiword (0)
PP Idioms (0)

Category Members (0)

Subcategories

Metadata