Author: Her, One-Soon Date: Dec 21, 1998 Title: LEXICAL MAPPING IN CHINESE INVERSION CONSTRUCTIONS Email: osh@nccu.edu.tw Format: Microsoft Word 97 Remark: presented at LFG98 Abstract: This paper accounts for subject-object inversion in Chinese resultative compounds within the lexical mapping theory. The inversion is attributed to the competition for syntactic assignment between the two composing roles in a composite role. This account is extended to the subject-object inversion in verbs of consumption with an agent-domain composite role.