CLAUSAL INTEGRATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF MITIGATIVE AND ADHORTATIVE SENTENCE-FINAL PARTICLES IN CHINESE
This paper identifies a number of different pathways that give rise to sentence final particles in Chinese. In particular, it focuses on a strategy referred to as ‘clausal integration’. Diachronic evidence is given for the emergence of sentence final particles er yi yi and ye yi yi in Old Chinese. A...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Crane Publishing Co
2010-12-01
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Series: | Taiwan Journal of Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume8-2/8.2-3Yap.pdf |