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The adjective-noun composition of “emotional value + emotional initiation” has causal meaning, which can be indicated by adding the affected role “lìnɡ/shǐ…” before adjectives. However, “lìnɡ/shǐ…” cannot be added before some adjective-noun compositions. On the basis of some literature, this paper discusses this issue, pointing out that the (dis)appearance of the affected role “lìnɡ/shǐ…” can be preliminarily explained through the semantic relation between the adjectives and nouns referring to things or participants in events.
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Li, Q. (2018). The (Dis) appearance of Affected Role “lìnɡ/shǐ…” in the Causative Adjective-Noun Composition. In: Wu, Y., Hong, JF., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10709. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_16
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