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- Title
The emergence of e<sup>5</sup> khuan<sup>2</sup> 个款 as a sensory evidential marker in TSM.
- Authors
Chinfa Lien
- Abstract
This paper takes the string e5 khuan2 个款 (EK for short) as an ambiguous case to show the emergence of a grammatical function out of a lexical category. It examines the ambiguity of EK in conjunction with the analysis of its syntactic structure. It explores the collocates of EK including a range of matrix predicates and sentence-final particles. It pins down EK as a sensory evidential marker in semantic interpretation. Finally, it teases out the unique syntactic and semantic properties of EK in terms of the layered structure of sentence-final particles.
- Subjects
SYNTAX (Grammar); SEMANTICS; COMPLEMENTIZERS (Grammar); MANDARIN dialects; NOUN phrases (Grammar)
- Publication
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
2213-8706
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ijchl.16018.lie