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Title: | The development of the Chinese discourse marker and expressive wanle |
Authors: | Dr. ZHAN Fangqiong Sun, Chaofen |
Issue Date: | Feb-2022 |
Source: | Journal of Pragmatics, Feb. 2022, vol. 189, pp. 37-54. |
Journal: | Journal of Pragmatics |
Abstract: | This paper focuses on the multifunctional non-compositional construction wanle as a discourse marker (DM) and an expressive in Modern Chinese as well as how they came into being in the history of Chinese. There have been a few works on the semantics and pragmatic function of the chunked wanle, however, none of them discusses it from a diachronic constructional perspective, and none has proposed the differences between its use as a DM and as an expressive. Based on the extensive classical data, we argue that even though both the DM and the expressive wanle originated from the inflected change-of-state verb, they developed with different trajectories. From a diachronic constructional point of view, we further argue that the development of the DM and the expressive wanle may have involved multiple mechanisms and multiple inputs. |
Type: | Peer Reviewed Journal Article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/6926 |
ISSN: | 0378-2166 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.11.008 |
Appears in Collections: | Chinese Language & Literature - Publication |
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