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313 called Stimulus-Subject (henceforth SS) type. (2) a. I'

m bored. (Experiencer-Adjective) b. I'

m bored with this. (Experiencer-Adjective-Stimulus) c. I detest this. (Experiencer-Verb-Stimulus) d. This bores me. (Stimulus-Verb-Experiencer) e. This is [boring / detestable] to me. (Stimulus-Adjective-Experiencer) f. This is [boring / detestable]. (Stimulus-Adjective) The notion of ES-type and SS-type psych predicates also applies to Mandarin Chinese, but the lexical properties and syntactic behavior are different from those in English. Here we briefly review Wu (1993) and Chang et al. (2000), since the issues there concern us the most.

3 Based on transitivity and causation, Wu (1993) distinguishes between psychological causatives like 振奋 zhen4fen4 to excite, p........