Formation of Modern Chinese speech-quotative nǐ shuō ‘you say’ and feedback-seeking nǐ shuō ‘you tell me’: Two grammaticalizational pathways

In Modern Chinese, four construction types involving nǐ shuō may be distinguished. In this study, it is argued that the prosodically unseparated speech-quotative nǐ shuō (S1) develops from the prosodically separated speech-quotation nǐ shuō (S3) through a hypothesized complementation pathway which m...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Language and linguistics (Taipei) 2022-09, Vol.23 (4), p.743-777
Hauptverfasser:	Long, Haiping, Wang, Xianhui, Wang, Lei
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Chinese languages Clauses Feedback Parenthetical expressions Predicate Prosody Reported speech Semantics Syntactic structures Syntax
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