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An Ongoing Tonal-Pattern Change: Lanzhou Dialect 持续的声调模式变化：兰州方言

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2017.a923482

Li Yi, Han Li, Yingyi Li, Juejue Mu

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Grammaticalized Uses of the Postverbal Locative Prepositional Phrase in Lianhua Gan 莲花干》中后置动词性介词短语的语法化用法

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2017.a923476

Xiaojuan Hu

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Shì as a Complementizer 作为补语的 Shì

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2017.a923478

Zhaole Yang

{"title":"Shì as a Complementizer","authors":"Zhaole Yang","doi":"10.1353/jcl.2017.a923478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2017.a923478","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, it is argued that a purely functional and semantically bleached shì in Mandarin could in many contexts be best analyzed as a complementizer. As such, i t is comparable to English that and functions as an (optional) introducer of the clausal arguments. Our survey shows that the morpheme shì as a complementizer occurs after quite a number of clause introducing operators, for instance, epistemic modals, clausal adverbs, clausal conjunctions, and verbs taking clausal objects like psych verbs and speech act verbs. Like in some other languages, e.g., the West African language Twi and Dutch, the complementizer can merge with a preceding element and the two elements are turned into one frozen combination involving reanalysis and constituency rebracketing . We argue that Mandarin shì has gone through similar developments as complementizer in many frozen combinations such as shuōshì . As a piece of additional evidence, we find that in Gangou dialect, a Mandarin variant, shì can also take on a complementizer function. In the end, based on the fact that shì is used as a demonstrative pronoun in Pre Qin times, we argue that Mandarin indeed has complementizers from two different sources out of the five major sources across languages listed by Chappell (2017), i.e., shuō , the complementizer (as argued by many) originally from a verb of saying, and shì , originally a demonstrative.","PeriodicalId":44675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140281201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Prosodic and Perceptional Study on the Chinese Interrogative Pronoun “Shen Me” When Indicating Inquiry, Free Reference and Negation (in Chinese) 汉语疑问代词 "申我 "在表示询问、自由指称和否定时的拟声和感知研究

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2017.a923481

Ping Wang, Xiaowen Wang

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On the Distribution and Origin of Sortal Classifiers in Altaic Languages (in Chinese) 论阿尔泰语中排序分类词的分布和起源（中文）

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2017.a923479

Shen-An Chen, Marc Allassonière-Tang, Yung-Ping Liang, One-Soon Her

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A Sentence Medial Clause Typing Intoneme in Mandarin A-NOT-A Questions 普通话 A-NOT-A 问题中的句中分句类型音素

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2017.a923477

Chi Wang

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Tense and Lax Vowels in the Lahu Dialect of Yunshan: A Laboratory Phonological Study 云山拉祜方言中的时态元音和松弛元音：一项实验室语音学研究

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2017.a923480

Yan Liu, Yichen Wei, Yongxian Luo

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江西吉水方言连-介词“做(伴)”: 的功能和语义演变江西吉水方言连-介词“做(伴)”: 的功能和语义演变

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2024.a919402

桂兰李

{"title":"江西吉水方言连-介词“做(伴)”: 的功能和语义演变","authors":"桂兰李","doi":"10.1353/jcl.2024.a919402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2024.a919402","url":null,"abstract":"摘要: 江西吉水方言的“做”有普通话“和”的介词和连词功能，可引出协同对象、言谈对象、比较对象和并列对象。连-介词“做”的功能一般可以用“做伴(/嘙/得)”替换。文章以“做”为代表观察“做”及双音节形式的功能后指出，“做”是“做伴”语音弱化的结果，伴随介词“做伴[ʦɿ31–51 phon512–20]”源于相伴义动词“做伴[ʦɿ31–33 phon512]”，即在突显协同对象的连谓结构中，动词前的“做伴”发展出伴随介词功能，并发展出其他功能。考察发现，连-介词“做”及双音节形式也见于吉水周边的赣方言、吴方言和徽语，汉语方言中广泛存在相伴义动词发展出连-介词功能这种现象。① ABSTRACT: Similar with he or ken in Mandarin, ʦɿ 31-512 (做) of Jishui dialect in Jiangxi functions as comitative, animate directional and comparative preposition as well as coordinator, which can be substituted by the disyllabic functional words ʦɿ31–51 phon512–20 (做伴), ʦɿ31–51 pho20 (做嘙) or ʦɿ31–51 te20 (做得). This paper explores the functions of ʦɿ 31-512 as well as its disyllable and explores their semantic sources and pathway of semantic changes. It claims that the comitative ʦɿ 31-51 p h on 512-20 originates from verb ʦɿ 31-33 p h on 512meaning accompany , and it is reanalyzed with tonal change in the situation where ʦɿ 31-33 p h on 512 acts as the first verb with a prominent animate object of a serial verb construction. Then, on the one hand, the comitative ʦɿ 31-51 p h on 512-20 undergoes erosion into ʦɿ 31-51 p h o 512-20 or even into ʦɿ 3-512, and the latter one constitutes a compound disyllabic with suffix te 0. On the other hand, the disyllabic and monosyllabic comitatives are extended into other situations with other kinds of verb where they are reanalyzed into animate directional and comparative prepositions. Simultaneously, the comitatives are grammaticalized into coordinators, when the two participants make similar contributions to an event and hold equal status. Then it reveals that cognates of the preposition and coordinator ʦuo (做) or its compounds spread widely around Jishui dialect in Jiangxi as well as some Wu and Hui dialects, and it is common for verbs meaning accompany to develop into comitatives and coordinators.","PeriodicalId":44675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140525223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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不定冠词“个”与江西上饶广丰话的三种无定名词短语不定冠词“个”与江西上饶广丰话的三种无定名词短语

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2024.a919403

庆文张, 翠江

{"title":"不定冠词“个”与江西上饶广丰话的三种无定名词短语","authors":"庆文张, 翠江","doi":"10.1353/jcl.2024.a919403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2024.a919403","url":null,"abstract":"摘要: 作为吴语西部地区的分支方言，江西上饶广丰话在表达无定语法意义时与其他方言有很大不同：除了常见的“一量名”短语和省略数词“一”形成的“量名”短语外，广丰话还可使用“个量名”短语。从音系、句法和语义三个角度对“一量名”和“个量名”短语的观察发现，虽然广丰话中的“一”和“个”还保留了数词“一”的解读，但就语法性质而言，它们都基本上演化为了不定冠词。从“个量名”的句法表现可以推测，“个”的不定冠词用法是通用量词语法化的结果，这与之前发现的“量名”短语在许多方言中表有定意义、量词正逐渐演化为准定冠词的情况完全不同，可看作是对汉语方言指称系统和量词语法研究的重要补充。“一量名”和“个量名” 短语目前在广丰话中处于两者共存，相互竞争的局面，这一情况应该是广丰话同时受到上饶话和闽北、闽中地区方言影响的结果。 ABSTRACT: As a variety of west Wu dialect, Guangfeng dialect of Shangrao, Jiangxi is distinctive from others in indefiniteness encoding: Aside from “ ieʔ 5 ‘one’-Classifier-N” and “Classifier-N” phrases frequently observed in other dialects, Guangfeng dialect also takes “ kɤʔ 5 (个)-Classifier-N” phrases to encode indefiniteness. Phonological, syntactic and semantic examinations of the three types indefinite noun phrases suggest that ieʔ 5 ‘one’ and kɤʔ 5 are indefinite articles though their quantity interpretations remain. What is striking is that kɤʔ 5 (个) in “ kɤʔ 5 (个)-Classifier-N” has been grammaticalized into an indefinite article from a general classifier, which is in contrast with the previous findings that “Classifier-N” phrases are used to encode definiteness and classifiers in this structure is being changed into a quasi-definite article. This finding is an important supplement to the studies of the referentiality system of Chinese dialects and the grammatical properties of classifiers. Currently, “ ieʔ 5+classifier+noun” and “ kɤʔ 5+classifier+noun” phrases co-exist in Guangfeng dialect and are competing with each other. Such a situation is assumed to be the consequence of language contact among Guangfeng dialect, Shangrao dialect and dialects in northern central areas of Fujian.","PeriodicalId":44675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140527292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The phonetic realization of laryngeal contrasts in Lili Wu Chinese: Evidence from tone-sandhi domain medial position 吴丽莉汉语中喉音对比的语音实现：来自声调-沙地域中间位置的证据

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2024.a919404

Menghui Shi, Ziyi Bai, Yiya Chen

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