The development of the Chinese copula shì construction

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2019-08-02 DOI:10.1075/FOL.16001.ZHA

Fangqiong Zhan, E. Traugott

引用次数: 6

Abstract

This paper investigates the development of the copula shì construction in Chinese from the perspective of diachronic construction grammar (Traugott & Trousdale 2013). In prior work the development has been conceptualized in a grammaticalization framework, with focus on the individual expression shì, rather than on its development in the context of both the immediate syntactic frame and also of other constructions such as the demonstrative shì construction and the copula wéi construction. We show that the copula shì construction went through various types of expansion and reduction. The change was not unidirectional in the way predicted by a grammaticalization model such as is proposed in e.g. Lehmann (1995, 2004) and Haspelmath (2004).

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中国联系法的发展shì建设

本文从历时结构语法(Traugott & Trousdale 2013)的角度考察了汉语连词shì结构的发展。在先前的研究中，这种发展是在一个语法化框架中概念化的，重点是个人表达shì，而不是在直接句法框架和其他结构(如指示性shì结构和联结式w i结构)的背景下发展。我们证明了联结体shì的构造经历了各种类型的膨胀和缩减。这种变化并不像Lehmann(1995,2004)和Haspelmath(2004)等人提出的语法化模型所预测的那样是单向的。

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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.