This paper investigates aspectual meanings that resultative morphemes in Mandarin Chinese contribute to interpretations of the entire predicates, and in particular the culmination readings they bring out of the originally non-culminating accomplishments. Two resultative morphemes are studied: -wán and -diào. I argue that while both morphemes give rise to culmination readings, the culmination readings are derived in different ways. I propose that -wán expresses termination, which comments on the progress of an event. The culmination readings of the telicized accomplishments by -wán are obtained indirectly. By contrast, -diào expresses culmination, commenting directly on the resulting culmination state. The proposed analysis for the two morphemes is couched in the framework defined by Krifka (1989, 1992, 1998), which models the relations between events, individuals, and times as a series of homomorphic relations between mereological part structures. Following Zucchi & White (2001), I analyze -diào in terms of a maximalization over patient, which transfers mereological properties from the individual structure to the event structure, explaining the culmination reading, and -wán a maximalization over time, which transfers mereological properties from the time structure to the event structure, explaining termination, and then transfers the mereological properties to the individual structure, explaining the culmination reading.

本文研究了汉语中的结果语素有助于解释整个谓词的方面意义，特别是它们从最初的非最终成就中带来的高潮阅读。研究了两个结果语素：-wán和-diào。我认为，虽然两个语素都会产生高潮读数，但高潮读数是以不同的方式派生的。我建议 - wán表示终止，它评论事件的进展。由-wán 的具体成就的最高读数是间接获得的。相比之下，-diào表达顶点，直接评论产生的顶点状态。对这两个语素的建议分析是在 Krifka (1989, 1992, 1998) 定义的框架中提出的，该框架将事件、个体和时间之间的关系建模为分子学部分结构之间的一系列同态关系。继 Zucchi & White (2001) 之后，我根据患者的最大化来分析-diào，它将分子学特性从个体结构转移到事件结构，解释了顶点读数，以及-wán随时间的最大化，将分流特性从时间结构转移到事件结构，解释终止，然后将分流特性转移到单个结构，解释顶点解读。