Abstract: As an distinctive form of phrase in modern Chinese grammar system, serial verb construction has been a vexed topic in the academic for a long time However, there have not been any final conclusions of its definition, scope and features Specialists hold differing views on the semantic relation of VPl and VP2, some of which are even completely different from each other What is more, the voice in abolishing "serial verb construction" sounds continuously Combining the most authoritative statements and the facts of modern Chinese, this paper describes the features of the serial verb construction by which, we can differentiates it from other phrases. This paper refers to the logic semantic relations to analysis the structural relations of VPl and VP2, then on the basis of this, sums up 6 models of semantic structure of serial verb construction Meanwhile, from the point of view of the cognitive linguistics, this paper emphatically analyses the spatio-temporal relations between VP1 and VP2... |