广东话“等”动词“当”的多种功能及其历史发展

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Studies in Language Pub Date : 2020-09-04 DOI:10.1075/sl.19011.lai

Yik-Po Lai

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“等待”语素的历时性发展尚未得到很好的研究。本文描述了“等待”动词dang2在香港粤语中的多种功能:(a)表示“需要”的动词，(b)表示“让”的容许动词，(c)表示“原因”的使役动词，(d)表示“在，何时”的时间标记，(e)表示即将发生的事件的助词，以及(f)表示某人惊讶的从属连词。提出了四条发展路径来解释多功能:“等待”> (a);' wait ' > (d);' wait ' > (b) > (e);和' wait ' > (c) > (f)。这个例子引起了人们对' wait '语素用于表达各种其他抽象概念的潜力的关注，并且进一步强调了间接来源在语法化理论中的作用。

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Multiple functions of the Cantonese ‘wait’ verb dang2 and their historical development

Abstract The diachronic development of morphemes meaning ‘wait’ has not been well documented. This paper describes multiple functions of the ‘wait’ verb dang2 in Hong Kong Cantonese: (a) a verb meaning ‘be in need of’, (b) a permissive verb meaning ‘let’, (c) a causative verb meaning ‘cause’, (d) a temporal marker meaning ‘at, when’, (e) a particle for giving notice of a coming event, and (f) a subordinating conjunction signifying someone’s surprise. Four development paths are proposed to account for the multifunctionality: ‘wait’ > (a); ‘wait’ > (d); ‘wait’ > (b) > (e); and ‘wait’ > (c) > (f). This case draws attention to the potential of ‘wait’ morphemes to be employed to express various other abstract concepts and, furthermore, highlights the role of indirect sources in the theory of grammaticalization.

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Studies in Language Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Studies in Language provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. Special emphasis is placed on works which contribute to the development of discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological theory and which explore the application of empirical methodology to the analysis of grammar.