Expressing the existence of an event with ‘you (to have) + VP’ in Taiwan Mandarin

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Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-29 DOI:10.1075/consl.21046.col

Aymeric Collart, Hu Su

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Abstract

The verb you ‘to have’ in standard Mandarin is typically followed by a noun. You can also take a VP as its complement (‘you + VP’) in several varieties of Mandarin. However, the function associated with it is still under debate: ‘you + VP’ has been analyzed as expressing past tense, perfective aspect, perfect aspect, or realis mood. This paper assesses these analyses by conducting a corpus-based investigation of ‘you + VP’ on the PTT platform and by looking at different morphosyntactic environments in which it is used. The data favor analyzing ‘you + VP’ as expressing an assertive modality meaning (the situation is considered true in the real world by the speaker). This analysis corroborates with the high frequency of ‘you + VP’ in assertive environments (e.g., after factual verbs in embedded clauses, with attitudinal adverbs of truth value, among others). Conversely, taking ‘you + VP’ as indicating past tense or perfective aspect is challenged by the present data, and the perfect aspect analysis cannot explain all the environments in which ‘you + VP’ is used. This paper provides new insights regarding the morphosyntactic use of ‘you + VP’ and sheds light on the meaning this construction encodes.

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用台湾普通话用“you (to have) + VP”表示事件的存在

在标准普通话中，动词“to have”通常后跟一个名词。在不同的普通话中，你也可以用“You + VP”作为它的补语。然而，与它相关的功能仍然存在争议:“you + VP”被分析为表达过去时、完成时、完成时或现实语气。本文通过在PTT平台上对“you + VP”进行基于语料库的调查，并通过观察使用它的不同形态句法环境，来评估这些分析。数据倾向于分析“you + VP”表达了一种自信的情态意义(说话者认为这种情况在现实世界中是真实的)。这一分析证实了“you + VP”在自信的环境中的高频率(例如，在嵌入从句的事实动词之后，与具有真值的态度副词等)。相反，将“you + VP”表示过去时或完成时受到现在数据的挑战，完成时分析并不能解释“you + VP”使用的所有环境。本文对“you + VP”的形态句法用法提供了新的见解，并阐明了该结构所编码的含义。

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期刊介绍： Concentric: Studies in Linguistics is a refereed, biannual journal, publishing research articles on all aspects of linguistic studies on the languages in the Asia-Pacific region. Review articles and book reviews with solid argumentation are also considered. The journal is indexed in Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Modern Language Association (MLA) Directory of Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), EBSCOhost, Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC), Airiti Library (AL), Taiwan Citation Index-Humanities and Social Sciences, and Taiwan Humanities Citation Index(THCI)-Level 1. First published in 1964 under the title,The Concentric, the journal aimed to promote academic research in the fields of linguistics and English literature, and to provide an avenue for researchers to share results of their investigations with other researchers and practitioners. Later in 1976, the journal was renamed as Studies in English Literature and Linguistics, and in 2001 was further renamed as Concentric: Studies in English Literature and Linguistics. As the quantity of research in the fields of theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, and English literature has increased greatly in recent years, the journal has evolved into two publications. Beginning in 2004, these two journals have been published under the titles Concentric: Studies in Linguistics and Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies respectively.