q incorporation mandarin recently arrived taiwan take teaching position result started getting involved mandarin chinese recently noticed language compound verbs interrupted may put locative phrases witness following exs ba yizi banjin fantingli lai obj marker chair movecome dining room come bring chairs dining room ta paohui jya qule runreturn home goasp marker run back home ba zheiben shu nahui xuexiao qu obj marker thisclass book carryreturn school go take book back school wondering order reinvent wheel anybody looked possibility analyzing constructions examples incorporation anybody offer good reason enough interest post summary best steven steven schaufele ph asst prof linguistics english department soochow university waishuanghsi campus taipei 11102 taiwan roc 886 02 8819471 ext 6504 fax 886 02 8835158 fcosw5 mbm1 scu edu tw