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This chapter demonstrates that in Northwestern Chinese dialects, besides serving as an imperfective marker, Zhe has another type of grammatical function: it is used in complex-predicate constructions with the surface configuration of “VP1+Zhe+VP2”, to mark the syntactic dependency between VP1 and VP2. This kind of Zhe can be called a “verb-chaining marker” (similar to the “converb marker”). The verb-chaining Zhe sets Northwestern Chinese dialects apart from other Chinese dialects, which are typically verb-serializing languages. Semantically diverse “VP1+Zhe+VP2” structures in Northwestern Chinese dialects cause this group of Chinese dialects to resemble non-serializing languages.

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The Verb-Chaining Use of Zhe in NWDs

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    2025年

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  • Xiaolei Fan

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This chapter demonstrates that in Northwestern Chinese dialects, besides serving as an imperfective marker, Zhe has another type of grammatical function: it is used in complex-predicate constructions with the surface configuration of “VP1+Zhe+VP2”, to mark the syntactic dependency between VP1 and VP2. This kind of Zhe can be called a “verb-chaining marker” (similar to the “converb marker”). The verb-chaining Zhe sets Northwestern Chinese dialects apart from other Chinese dialects, which are typically verb-serializing languages. Semantically diverse “VP1+Zhe+VP2” structures in Northwestern Chinese dialects cause this group of Chinese dialects to resemble non-serializing languages.