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New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 5)

Editors: Meisterernst, Barbara

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1948-8

ISBN: 978-981-13-1947-1

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Dec 29, 2018

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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On a Temporal Preposition in the Baoding Dialect—Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Peyraube, Alain; Song, Na

Pages: 3 –21

[There is a special temporal marker in the Baoding dialect to express the temporal relation of two sequential events: 投 tho22. We consider this maker as a preposition, which precedes its nominal objects corresponding to the postposition 之前/以前 zhīqián/yĭqián ‘before’ in Standard Mandarin. This...
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A Preliminary Investigation of Aspectual Features of Motion Verbs in Classical Chinese

Wang, Cheng

Pages: 23 –48

[It is believed that Classical Chinese, though without grammatical category of aspect, has the lexical aspect. This chapter proposes that verbs in Classical Chinese contain semantic components related to aspectual meaning and the lack of morphological means is compensated by the rich contents of...
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Future, Alternatives and Volition: The Origin of Markers of Future Tense and Alternative Questions in Archaic Chinese

Hu, Chirui

Pages: 49 –78

[This article first discusses the future markers 將 jiāng, 且 qiě, and 其 qí in Archaic Chinese; it suggests that these future uses may have been derived from verbs of volition. Similarly, analyses of the use of jiāng, ‘qie, and qí in alternative questions reveal that their origin is also related to...
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Issues on the Adverb 其 qí in Archaic Chinese

Gu, Feng

Pages: 79 –108

[This chapter explores into the meanings and distributions of the adverb 其 qí in Archaic Chinese texts. Before doing this, several constructions consisting of 其 qí (“WH-elements + 其 qí + VP”, “与其yŭqí + VP1,不如/宁bùrú/nìng + VP2”) were reassessed in Sect. 4.2, and instances of 其 qí in these...
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The Development of 且 QIE as a Polite Imperative Marker

Mu, Yezi

Pages: 109 –131

[ In Middle Chinese, a new function of QIE as a marker of polite imperative started to appear, and its use gradually increased in frequency until the late Old Mandarin era. This paper proposes a possible path for the development of this function of QIE in Middle Chinese, and suggests that it...
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Modality in General Linguistic Investigations Conducted in China Prior to 1949

Sparvoli, Carlotta

Pages: 135 –157

[This article focuses on the investigations by Li Jinxi (New Grammar of the National Language. Li Jinxi collected works. Heilongjiang Education Press, Harbin, 1924), Lü Shuxiang (Outline of Chinese Grammar. The Commercial Press, Shanghai, 1942a, Outline of Chinese grammar. Collection of Lü...
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A New Approach on the Modal KE 可 and the Relation Between the Aspectual and the Modal System in Archaic Chinese

Meisterernst, Barbara

Pages: 159 –189

[This investigation attempts to apply some of the hypotheses proposed with regard to a reconstructed verbal morphology in Archaic Chinese (Old Chinese) to the analysis of modal predication. The focus lies on the analysis of the morpho-syntactic constraints of the complement of the modal verb of...
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The Syntax and the Semantics of the Deontic Modals yīng 應 and dāng 當 in Early Buddhist Texts

Xiong, Jiajuan; Meisterernst, Barbara

Pages: 191 –220

[Modal verbs in Chinese are a clear instantiation of grammaticalization, to a certain extent comparable to the English modals. All Chinese modals derive from lexical verbs and grammaticalize into markers of deontic and/or epistemic modality, and/or into future markers. The modals當 dā̄ng and應 yīng...
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Modality Without Modals: The Case of Interrogatives in Early Vernacular Texts

Anderl, Christoph

Pages: 221 –238

[When researching the system of interrogative sentences and interrogative pronouns in early vernacular Chinese texts (early 白話 báihuà), one is surprised about the richness of rhetorical sentence patterns and the large array of question pronouns employed in the textual material. This is especially...

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