From dynamic modal to conditional protasis connective

IF 0.6 3区文学 N/A LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-04-07 DOI:10.1075/FOL.20030.KUO

Y. Kuo

引用次数: 4

Abstract

The grammaticalization literature has not demonstrated convincingly how, if at all, dynamic modals may develop into conditional protasis connectives. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative evidence from Chinese, this paper hypothesizes that such a directionality may arise through univerbation between dynamic modals and protasis connectives (e.g. ruò ‘if’ + néng ‘be able to’ > ruònéng ‘if’). Furthermore, this paper suggests that functional compatibility in terms of performativity may explain why dynamic modals tend to grammaticalize into connectives in pre-established conditional protases, while deontic and epistemic modals do so in main clauses.

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从动态情态到条件前置连词

语法化文献并没有令人信服地证明动态语气词是如何发展成条件前体连接词的。根据汉语的定性和定量证据，本文假设这种方向性可能是通过动态语气词和protasis连接词之间的不一致而产生的（例如，如果'+néng'能够'>ruånéng'if'）。此外，本文认为，在表演性方面的功能兼容性可以解释为什么动态情态在预先建立的条件主角中倾向于语法化为连接词，而义务情态和认识情态在主句中则如此。

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期刊介绍： Functions of Language is an international journal of linguistics which explores the functionalist perspective on the organisation and use of natural language. It encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from a broad range of languages. Its scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenomena in phonology, the clause in its communicative context, and regularities of pragmatics, conversation and discourse, as well as the interaction between the various levels of analysis. The overall purpose is to contribute to our understanding of how the use of languages in speech and writing has impacted, and continues to impact, upon the structure of those languages.

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