On the conditional marker “zhě”(者)

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Fanxi Li
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Abstract

This paper aims to explain the development of “zhě” serving as a conditional marker mainly in Late Archaic Chinese and to show that the conditional marker “zhě” derives from the nominalizer “zhě”. The grammaticalization of “zhě” is at the level of pragmatic inference, which shows an interaction of nominalization, topicality, and conditionality. Nominalization directly makes the original clause lose its ability to confirm the factuality of the event, and the nominalized construction then is endowed with a generic meaning, which is in some way related to conditionals. Specifically, the contexts triggering this grammaticalization can be summarized as follows: Firstly, the construction “VP/clause + zhě” always occupies the topic position; secondly, VPs/clauses in that construction always represent a kind of non-factual event, which means that the semantic feature of the VPs/clauses is non-factual or unreal. Furthermore, there are two clues, namely modal auxiliary and negator, which can help identify the non-factual event.
在条件标记“zhzhi”上
本文旨在说明“zhzhi”主要在古汉语中作为条件标记的发展过程,并说明条件标记“zhzhi”是由名词性修饰词“zhzhi”衍生而来。“你”的语法化是在语用推理层面,表现为名词化、话题化和条件化的相互作用。名词化直接使原句失去了确认事件真实性的能力,于是名词化结构被赋予了一般意义,这种意义在某种程度上与条件句有关。具体来说,引发这种语法化的语境可以概括为:第一,“VP/clause + zhzhi”结构总是占据话题位置;其次,该结构中的副句/子句总是代表一种非事实事件,这意味着副句/子句的语义特征是非事实的或不真实的。此外,情态助词和否定词两种线索有助于识别非事实事件。
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