From separate clause to epistemic adverbial, the neglected source construction and initial-to-medial pathway: Chinese guoran ‘it really happens’

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Haiping Long, F. Ursini, B. Heine, Yaohua Luo
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ABSTRACT The source construction and the pathway for the formation of English epistemic adverbials are widely discussed in the literature. However, few studies to our knowledge have specifically discussed a hypothetical source construction of separate clauses and a hypothetical initial-to-medial pathway. Chinese guoran was first used as a separate clause, and later developed into an epistemic adverbial meaning ‘it really happens’. Diachronic investigations reveal that it followed a hypothetical initial-to-medial pathway leading from a clause-initial position to a clause-medial position. The hypothetical source construction and the hypothetical pathway are supported by diachronic changes of other epistemic adverbials in Chinese, and may be adopted to account for the formation of some epistemic adverbials in the other languages.
从分句到认识状语,被忽视的源结构和首-中通路:中国果然“它真的发生了”
摘要英语认识状语的来源结构和形成途径在文献中有广泛的讨论。然而,据我们所知,很少有研究专门讨论单独从句的假设来源结构和假设的起始-中间通路。汉语“果然”最初是作为一个单独的从句使用的,后来发展成为一个认识状语,意思是“它真的发生了”。历时性研究表明,它遵循一个假设的起始-中间路径,从从句起始位置到从句中间位置。假设源结构和假设路径得到了汉语其他认识状语历时变化的支持,并可能被用来解释其他语言中某些认识状语的形成。
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