Wang Li proposed the criteria for judging the verb-complement structure by its form and its meaning,two criteria that should be well integrated.

Based on materials of ancient Chinese language,this paper illustrates that there are "semantic differences" between the first and the second characters of verb-complement structure.

This paper samples some representative texts of different times, and discusses the separate form of the verb-complement structure from the diachronic perspective, and reaches the conclusion that the separate form of verb-complement construction is the counterpart of the bound form without any relationship between them in origination.

Further Research on the Pivotal Theory about the Origin of V-C Structure in Ancient Chinese;

The paper analizes the V-C structure in old Chinese by taking account of the subject, predicate, object and complement as well as their grammatical and semantic relations, with the analysis of the function of the grammar and semantic of the complement in focus.

I argue that the re-distribution of definite patient nouns was responsible for the emergence and the establishment of the resultative construction was the stimulation for the development of the construction.

The reason lies in the interference from the Chinese resultative construction.

The Chinese resultative construction is one of the most popular research topics in Chinese grammar in modern times.

This paper studies six types of Verb-complement construction in Xi You ii, and analyses their internal structures, which consists of seven sections.

Serial verb construction can be regarded as a verb-complement construction,V2 is only the complement of V1 or VP1 to represent result,state or goal.

Neat divisions of verb-complement constructions in Chinese can be made in terms of both transitivity and unaccusativity.