The Diachronic Development of Modal Expressions in Chinese
From Late Archaic to Middle Chinese
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2024
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-073778-3 (ISBN)
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-073778-3 (ISBN)
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The present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross-linguistic diachronic developments of modals from lexical to functional categories as upward movement on a functional spine. The temporal framework of the study covers Late Archaic and Middle Chinese. Early Middle Chinese is a crucial turning point for the development of Chinese from a more synthetic to a more analytic language. This change is attributed e.g. to the loss of a former morphology, which also affects the modal system. Against this background, the negative cycle of Chinese, the relevance of polarity contexts, and the development of a new system of deontic, epistemic and future markers are analyzed. In addition to a comprehensive analysis of the syntactic processes involved in the diachronic changes of the Chinese modal system, the study also provides a comparison with the syntax of grammaticalization of the thoroughly discussed Germanic modals. This constitutes a broad basis for further analyses of the changes in the Chinese language during its long written history, but also for cross-linguistic studies on the syntax of grammaticalization and on linguistic universals.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.12.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; 18 |
Zusatzinfo | 2 b/w ill., 12 b/w tbl. |
Verlagsort | Basel/Berlin/Boston |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Historical Linguistics • Historische Linguistik • Modalität • modality • Syntax |
ISBN-10 | 3-11-073778-7 / 3110737787 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-073778-3 / 9783110737783 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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