1887
Volume 4, Issue 2
  • ISSN 2213-8706
  • E-ISSN: 2213-8714
USD
Buy:$35.00 + Taxes

Abstract

This paper takes the string 个款 (EK for short) as an ambiguous case to show the emergence of a grammatical function out of a lexical category. It examines the ambiguity of EK in conjunction with the analysis of its syntactic structure. It explores the collocates of EK including a range of matrix predicates and sentence-final particles. It pins down EK as a sensory evidential marker in semantic interpretation. Finally, it teases out the unique syntactic and semantic properties of EK in terms of the layered structure of sentence-final particles.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1075/ijchl.16018.lie
2017-12-30
2025-04-20
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Aijmer, Karen
    (2009) Seem and evidentiality. Functions of Language16, 63–88. doi: 10.1075/fol.16.1.05aij
    https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.16.1.05aij [Google Scholar]
  2. Alkhenvald, A. Y. & R. M. W. Dixon
    (Eds.) (2003) Studies in evidentiality. Typological Studies in Language. Vol54. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Alkhenvald, Alexandra Y.
    (2004) Evidentiality. Oxford University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Chafe, Wallace , and Johanna, Nichols
    (Eds.) (1986) Evidentiality: the linguistic coding of epistemology. Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Chappell, Hilary
    (2001) A typology of evidential markers in Sinitic languages, In Hilary Chappell (Ed.), Sinitic grammar: synchronic and diachronic perspectives (pp.56–84). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Chomsky, Noam
    (2001) Derivation by phase. In Michael Kenstowicz (Ed.), Ken Hale: a life in language (pp.1–52). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Douglas, Rev. Carstairs
    (1873) Chinese-English dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of amoy with the principal variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew dialects. London: Trübner and Co.
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Heine, Bernd
    (2002) On the role of context in grammaticalization. In Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald (Eds.), New reflections on grammaticalization: typological studies in language. Volume49 (pp.83–101). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/tsl.49.08hei
    https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.49.08hei [Google Scholar]
  9. Heine, Bernd and Mechthild Reh
    (1984) Grammaticalization and Reanalysis in African Languages. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
    [Google Scholar]
  10. Heine, Bernd , Ulrike Claudi , and Friederike Hünnemeyer
    (1991) Grammaticalization: a conceptual framework. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  11. Jenks, Peter
    (2014) Generalized clausal modifiers in Thai noun phrases. Syntax4, 299–343. doi: 10.1111/synt.12022
    https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12022 [Google Scholar]
  12. Jiang, Lansheng
    (1992) Zhuci si de de yufa yiyi ji qi laiyuan (the grammatical function and the origin of the particle si de ). Zhongguo Yuwen231, 445–452.
    [Google Scholar]
  13. Kayne, Richard S.
    (1994) The antisymmetry of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Li, Yen-hui Audrey
    (2012) De in Mandarin ↔ e in Taiwanese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics33(1), 17–40.
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Rizzi, Luigi
    (1997) The fine structure of the left periphery. In Liliane Haegeman (Ed.), Elements of grammar (pp.281–337). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. doi: 10.1007/978‑94‑011‑5420‑8_7
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5420-8_7 [Google Scholar]
  16. Rizzi, Luigi and Guglielmo Cinque
    (2016) Functional categories and syntactic theory. Annual Review of Linguistics2, 139–163. doi: 10.1146/annurev‑linguistics‑011415‑040827
    https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040827 [Google Scholar]
  17. Shlonsky, Ur
    (2010) The cartographic enterprise in syntax. Language and Linguistic Compass4(6), 417–429. doi: 10.1111/j.1749‑818X.2010.00202.x
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00202.x [Google Scholar]
  18. Sybesma, Rint and Boya Li
    (2007) The dissection and structural mapping of Cantonese sentence final particles. Lingua117, 1739–1783. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.10.003
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2006.10.003 [Google Scholar]
  19. Tsai, Wei-Tien
    (2015) Cai weiguan dao hongguan: hanyu yufa de shengcheng shiye (From Microscopic View to Cosmic Perspective: Generative Landscape of Chinese Syntax). Beijing: Shangwu Yishuguan.
    [Google Scholar]
  20. Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan
    (Ed.) (2015) The cartography of Chinese syntax: the cartography of syntactic structures, Volume11. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210687.001.0001
    https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210687.001.0001 [Google Scholar]
  21. Willet, Thomas
    (1988) A cross-linguistic survey of the grammaticalization of evidentiality. Studies in Language12(1), 51–91. doi: 10.1075/sl.12.1.04wil
    https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.12.1.04wil [Google Scholar]
/content/journals/10.1075/ijchl.16018.lie
Loading
  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): evidential marker; functional categories; particles; TSM
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was successful
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error