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Abstract

The Modern Chinese concessive connective (e.g., [‘it looks not so good, it tastes quite good’]) did not develop from a clause-initial emphatic structure that has a pragmatic counter expectation meaning (e.g., [‘it she who said it’]), but from an affirmative response marker in Early Modern Chinese (e.g., [‘, what do you send me as gifts tomorrow?’]). in the connective did not develop from a copula , but from an adjective meaning ‘right, true’ (e.g., [‘right, it’s ’]). The hypothesised pathway may be explained as the grammaticalisation of an affirmative response marker used in the context of token agreement, and may be adopted to account for the formation of an Old Chinese concessive connective (e.g., [‘ if Zheng State perishes, it serves you no good, either’]). It gives support to an extra-clausal source for the formation of a sentence connective.

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