The Force Dynamics and the Macro-event Property in Chinese Resultative Construction

Talmy's force dynamics is the general description of classic "causative" meaning, concerning the exertion of force, resistance to such a force, the overcoming of such a resistance, blockage of the expression of force, removal of such blockage, and the like. While the force dynamics is too generalized to ignore the internal force transmission. Based on Talmy's macro-event, this thesis explores the internal force transmission and temporal properties in force dynamics of Chinese resultative construction. Finally, the thesis puts forward that with temporal properties, Chinese resultative construction has macro-event property in form-to-meaning mapping and follows such three principles as uniqueness constraint, macro-event linking principle and unique vector constraint.