Give Constructions across Languages

Gei , ‘give’ in Mandarin Chinese, has been object of many studies due to its multifaceted properties and its ability to appear in a number of different structures. However, previous analyses focus only on some of all the possible structures where gei appears, while excluding others. In this paper, I aim at tracing a taxonomy of all the gei constructions found in the literature and elicited in questionnaires, and propose a unified analysis of gei that encompasses as many gei structures as possibl