On the Headedness of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds

Concerning the headedness of RVCs, there are four logical possibilities and each of them has been proposed in the literature: (i) V1 being the head (e.g. Cheng and Huang 1994; Li 1990, 1993, 1995, 1999; Wang 2001); (ii) V2 being the head (e.g. Tai 2003, Yong 1997); (iii) both V1 and V2 being heads (e.g. Gu 1992); (iv) neither V1 nor V2 being the head (e.g. Huang and Lin 1992). The purpose of this paper is to argue for the fourth possibility mentioned above, namely the headlessness position, from the perspective of argument realization. In

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