Some temporal expressions in early Southern Min play scripts

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale Pub Date : 2021-10-14 DOI:10.1163/19606028-05002001

Chin-fa Lien

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Abstract

Drawing on the data in early Southern Min play scripts, this paper explores temporal expressions—in particular temporal adverbials—which bear on the issues of their grammatical categories and syntactic placement. Considerable space is devoted to clarifying two kinds of distinctions of temporal adverbials on the strength of attested examples. A distinction is made between deictic temporal adverbials and determiner phrase-derived temporal adverbials. Similarly, durative adverbials are shown to behave differently from punctual adverbials. Finally, I argue that the metonymic semantic shift of deictic temporal adverbials denoting tomorrow and yesterday/the day before yesterday is grounded in the constraint of proximity to the deictic center of today in connection with the backdrop of diachronic development.

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南民早期剧本中的时间表达

本文根据闽南语早期剧本中的资料，探讨了时间表达，特别是时间状语的语法范畴和句法位置问题。时间状语的两种区别是在例证的强度上加以澄清的。对指示性时间状语和限定词短语派生的时间状语进行了区分。同样，持续性状语的表现也与准时性状语不同。最后，我认为表示明天和昨天/前天的指示性时间状语的转喻语义转移是基于在历时发展的背景下接近今天的指示中心的约束。

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Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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