Abstract
In mandarin Chinese, we propose verbs can divide into two categories: verbs with direction and neutral with direction. Verbs with direction can divide into two types: source and goal. Source verbs has the meaning of making objects (D.O.) inward or inside the subject from the I.O., and goal type, on the contrast, has the meaning of making objects (D.O.) outward or outside from the subject to the I.O.. If we put an extra argument between a transitive verb with direction and its object (D.O.), the extra argument (I.O.) will thus receive either source or goal role according to the semantics of the verb. The other category of verbs is neutral to the direction because these verbs have both source and goal direction, that is, they can make D.O. move from the subject to the I.O. or from the subject to the D.O. We explore two syntactic and semantic behaviors of derived DOCs; passivization and relativization. Both of them are related to the semantics of verbs.
