Alternation in the Mandarin disposal constructions: quantifying their evolutionary dynamics across twelve centuries

IF 1 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI:10.1515/cllt-2023-0038
Meili Liu, Hubert Cuyckens
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Despite extensive research on the ba-construction in Chinese, the diachronic change in the alternation between the ba and jiang constructions has received little attention. The present study takes a multifactorial approach to examine the factors that probabilistically condition the alternation based on diachronic data across twelve centuries. The results suggest two general trends. First, the odds of the ba-construction have increased over time at the expense of the jiang-construction. Second, over time, the effect size of the significant preference for the jiang-construction in informal genres has reduced from the 10th to the 19th century, and this preference has disappeared in modern times; accordingly, both informal and formal genres have converged to favor the ba-construction in modern times. Regression modeling also shows that there are both stable linguistic constraints (parallelism/syntactic priming, verb type, NP2 animacy, and NP2 length) and fluid constraints (adjunct semantics, and genre). This study advances our knowledge of the two disposal constructions and their evolution, sheds light on the Principle of No Synonymy (Bolinger, Dwight. 1977. Meaning and form. New York: Longman; Goldberg, Adele E. 1995. Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; Goldberg, Adele E. 2002. Surface generalizations: An alternative to alternations. Cognitive Linguistics 13(4). 327–356), and makes a methodological contribution to the empirical testing of hypotheses. It can also provide insight into grammatical alternations in Mandarin.
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汉语处置结构的交替:十二个世纪以来演变动态的量化
尽管对汉语中“霸”构式进行了广泛的研究,但“霸”构式与“江”构式交替的历时性变化却很少受到关注。本研究采用多因素方法,以跨越12个世纪的历时数据为基础,考察影响这种交替的概率因素。研究结果显示了两大趋势。首先,随着时间的推移,坝建设的可能性增加了,而江建设的成本则降低了。第二,随着时间的推移,10 - 19世纪非正式体裁对建江的显著偏好的效应量有所减少,而这种偏好在近代已经消失;因此,在现代,正式文体和非正式文体都倾向于ba结构。回归模型还显示,既有稳定的语言约束(并行性/句法启动、动词类型、NP2动画性和NP2长度),也有不稳定的约束(修饰语义和体裁)。本研究增进了我们对两种处置结构及其演变的认识,揭示了无同义原则(Bolinger, Dwight. 1977)。意义和形式。纽约:朗曼出版社;Goldberg, Adele E. 1995。构式:论述结构的构式语法方法。芝加哥:芝加哥大学出版社;Goldberg, Adele E. 2002。表面概括:替代替代方案。认知语言学13(4)。327-356),并对假设的实证检验做出了方法论上的贡献。它还可以提供对普通话语法变化的洞察。
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期刊介绍: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original corpus-based research focusing on theoretically relevant issues in all core areas of linguistic research, or other recognized topic areas. It provides a forum for researchers from different theoretical backgrounds and different areas of interest that share a commitment to the systematic and exhaustive analysis of naturally occurring language. Contributions from all theoretical frameworks are welcome but they should be addressed at a general audience and thus be explicit about their assumptions and discovery procedures and provide sufficient theoretical background to be accessible to researchers from different frameworks. Topics Corpus Linguistics Quantitative Linguistics Phonology Morphology Semantics Syntax Pragmatics.
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