On Computing Multi-predicate Sentences in Mandarin

摘要

This paper points out that the multi-predicate sentences in Mandarin, including serial verb construction, telescopicform and verb-copying construction and so on, are combined by simple clauses in discourse. Accordingly in the process of NPL, we can compute all these kinds of multi-predicate sentences by the method of processing the simple clauses which form them respectively beforehand. Therefore we can solve this problem more economically, the idea of this method is based on the theory of dependency grammar and the theory of grammaticalization across clauses.