Dou's Association with Event and Its Unified Semantic Account

The orientation and object of the Chinese morpheme dou'ssemantic association have been the topic of much discussion in the literature. Based on the data concerning dou'sright dislocation, it is argued that (i) the orientation of dou'ssemantic association, which is usually the event or events manifested in the relevant utterance, serves as the premise for a unified semantic account of dou-sentences; (ii) the parsing of dou'sdislocation could also demonstrate that douis inherently an intensifier, whose function is to highlight a variable relating to an event or events; (iii) and eventually a semantic account model is proposed within the framework of event semantics, in which douis associated with event while the restrictor part could be a constituent from the structure or from the particular context. In other words, what douintensifies could be a single event or events.