28.4997, Books: The Morpho-Syntax of Aspect in Xiāng Chinese: Man

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:55:19
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Morpho-Syntax of Aspect in Xiāng Chinese: Man

 


Title: The Morpho-Syntax of Aspect in Xiāng Chinese 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-morpho-syntax-of-aspect-in-xiang-chinese 


Author: Lu Man

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932496 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This thesis investigates the morpho-syntax of the aspectual system in one
variety of Xiāng (namely: Chángshā), which is one of the ten sub-families of
Chinese (which are Mandarin, Xiāng, Gàn, Wú, Yuè, Hakka, Mǐn, Pínghuà, Jìn,
and Huī). 

Two of the idiosyncratic properties in Xiang Chinese is that one aspect marker
is used to express more than one meaning or that more than one element is used
to express one aspectual meaning. I base my analysis on the assumption that
inner aspect in Xiāng is a three-layered structure: Asp3P, Asp2P and Asp1P.

I focus my investigating on two aspect particles, ta21 and ka41. Different
from previous approach, I propose a two-particle approach to deal with the
multifunction of ta21. I argue that we have two particles sharing the same
morphological form: ta21PERF and ta21PROG. The difference between the two
particles lies in the different syntactic positions they occupy. I also point
out that ka41 should not be treated as a perfective marker as it is previously
proposed to be. Instead, I suggest that descriptively, ka41 doubles the
already existing endpoint and that it does so to make the endpoint definitive.
ka41 is used to block further access to the activity preceding the lexical
endpoint (for example, such event cannot be present in the progressive). In
the end, I point out that in Chángshā and Xiāng in general, all three Inner
aspect positions can be lexically realized. ta21PERF occupies Asp3o; ka41 and
ta21PROG occupies Asp2o; and a lexical result predicate may be located in
Asp1o position.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Xiang (hsn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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