This article deals with impersonal clauses in Chinese (ICiCs) (e.g. Taishang changzhe xi, 台上唱着戏). These are called pseudo-existentials in the literature, as they resemble typical existentials both in form and in meaning. I argue that ICiCs are impersonal, ergatively oriented, and existential. They are impersonal in that the actor of the process is typically demoted to the end position or completely omitted; ergatively oriented in that they express the meaning of happening instead of doing , and existential in that they present the existence of events with reference to some location realized by the initial locative nominal group. These three semantic aspects are in tune with each other and are realized by the structure NGL ^ VG ^ NG, in which VG ^ NG constitutes the event, whose existence is expressed through its configuration with the initial NGL.

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中文非人称从句

本文涉及汉语中的非人称从句 (ICiCs)（例如 Taishang changzhe xi、台上唱着戏）。这些在文学中被称为伪存在主义，因为它们在形式和意义上都类似于典型的存在主义。我认为 ICiC 是非个人的、以格为导向的和存在主义的。它们是客观的，因为过程的参与者通常被降级到最终位置或完全被忽略；作格取向的，因为它们表达发生而不是做的意义，存在的，因为它们参照由初始位置名词组实现的某个位置来呈现事件的存在。这三个语义方面相互协调，并通过结构 NGL^VG^NG 实现，其中 VG^NG 构成事件，其存在通过其与初始 NGL 的配置来表达。