Hao Kü : Sinological Circular

Unger, Ulrich

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“…The verb chí/zhì 'govern/governed' on the other hand shows one of the possible morphological alternations connected to meanings of telicity and resultativity. These are a) an alternative reading in the qùshēng resulting from a former *-s suffix (first proposed in Haudricourt 1954, also Downer 1959Unger 1983;Sagart 1999;Jin 金理新 2006, Schuessler (2007. ), or b) an alternation between voiced and voiceless initials (Karlgren 1933;Mei 梅祖麟 1988;Baxter and Sagart 2014, etc.).…”

Section: The Argument Structure Of Dé In Early Archaic and Late Archaic Chinesementioning

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A semantic analysis of modal DE 得 in pre-modern Chinese

Meisterernst

2019

Lingua Sinica

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In this paper, the lexical semantics of the pre-modal verb 得 dé and its development into a modal auxiliary will be discussed. Two different positions are available for the modal dé, the default preverbal position of modal auxiliary verbs and a post-verbal position. The analysis of the event and the argument structure of the lexical verb dé reveals that the different modal uses of dé originate from its functions as an achievement verb. In this regard, dé clearly differs from the other verbs of possibility in Late Archaic Chinese. The particular syntacto-semantic constraints of dé can account for its development into both a modal auxiliary verb, and for the particular functions it develops in the Modern Sinitic languages as a postverbal modal marker.

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Section: The Argument Structure Of Dé In Early Archaic and Late Archaic Chinesementioning

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A semantic analysis of modal DE 得 in pre-modern Chinese

Meisterernst

2019

Lingua Sinica

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“…14 Two different derivational processes have been proposed for the distinction of verbal aspects (e.g. Huang 黃坤堯 1992;Jin 金理新 2006;Unger 1983):…”

Section: Aspect In Han Period Chinesementioning

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“…a) The suffix *-s indicating the perfective aspect (Downer 1959;Jin 金理新 2006;Haudricourt 1954aHaudricourt , 1954bSagart 1999;Unger 1983;etc. ); or b) A voiceless (imperfective)-voiced (perfective) alternation of the root initial possibly caused by a former sonorant nasal prefix (Baxter and Sagart 1998;Karlgren 1933;Mei 梅祖麟 1988;etc.…”

Section: Aspect In Han Period Chinesementioning

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Modality and aspect and the thematic role of the subject in Late Archaic and Han period Chinese: obligation and necessity

Meisterernst

2017

lingua. sin.

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In this paper, the interplay of modal markers with the lexical aspect of the verb in Han period Chinese is at issue. Abraham and Leiss (Modality-aspect interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, 2008) propose a strong and possibly universal relation between the verbal aspect and either the root/deontic or the epistemic reading of a modal verb based on data from the Germanic languages. In this article, this hypothesis will be checked against the data of Late Archaic and Early Middle (Han period) Chinese. It will be proposed that a relation similar to that in the Germanic languages can also be established for Chinese at least for the root modal values, despite the obvious differences between the aspectual and modal system of Chinese and that of the Germanic languages. As in the Germanic languages, root modal verbs in general select verbs/predicates which are compatible with the perfective aspect, i.e. [+TELIC] verbs. Due to the fact that epistemic readings have not developed yet for modal auxiliary verbs, the constraints proposed in Abraham and Leiss for the epistemic reading of modal verbs in combination with imperfective or [−TELIC] verbs cannot be confirmed for LAC and EMC. Epistemic modality is expressed by sentential adverbs which take an entire proposition as their complement. These are less confined in their selectional restrictions than modal auxiliary verbs.

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Hao Kü : Sinological Circular

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A semantic analysis of modal DE 得 in pre-modern Chinese

A semantic analysis of modal DE 得 in pre-modern Chinese

Modality and aspect and the thematic role of the subject in Late Archaic and Han period Chinese: obligation and necessity

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