The grammaticalization of impossibility

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI:10.1075/lali.00144.liu
Meili Liu, Hubert Cuyckens
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Abstract This study, based on the analysis of historical corpus data, investigates the diachronic development of the Mandarin modal auxiliary wufa and establishes implications both for the grammaticalization of modals and for grammaticalization theory in general. Specifically, our study shows the following results: (1) The grammaticalization of wufa is characterized by coalescence, paradigmaticization, obligatorification, fixation, desemanticization, decategorialization and divergence. (2) Underlying mechanisms at work are structural reanalysis, later followed by syntactic expansion and host-class expansion. (3) The grammaticalization of wufa on the one hand confirms the diachronic path proposed in previous studies, viz., from root possibility to epistemic possibility; within the development of root possibility, however, it demonstrates a distinct path—from participant-external possibility to participant-internal possibility; it is suggested that an important driving force behind this peculiar development path is the Chinese cultural preference for collectivism. (4) The lexical source of modal wufa is a verb-complement sequence (rather than a single full verb).
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不可能的语法化
摘要本研究在分析历史语料资料的基础上,探讨了汉语情态助词“五发”的历时性发展,并对情态语法化和语法化理论提出了启示。研究结果表明:(1)五法的语法化表现为聚合化、范式化、义务化、固定化、去语义化、去范畴化和发散化。(2)工作的基本机制是结构再分析,随后是语法扩展和主机类扩展。(3)“五法”的语法化一方面印证了以往研究提出的历时性路径,即从词根可能性到认知可能性;而在根源可能性的发展过程中,却呈现出一条由参与者-外部可能性到参与者-内部可能性的鲜明路径;这一独特的发展路径背后的重要驱动力是中国文化对集体主义的偏好。(4)情态五发的词源是一个动词补语序列(而不是单个动词的完整形式)。
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期刊介绍: LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (ISSN:1606-822X; Online ISSN: 2309-5067) is an academic publication of the Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica. Established in 2000, it publishes research in general and theoretical linguistics on the languages of East Asia and the Pacific region, including Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and the Austroasiatic and Altaic language families (Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages are not included). LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS publishes both a journal and a monograph series. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS is a pure linguistics journal. We only publish articles on (descriptive and theoretical) linguistic studies but not articles on applied linguistics such as language teaching or language learning.
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