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- Title
Modal Development of Pa3 in Taiwanese Hakka: Grammaticalization and Subjectification.
- Authors
Yeh Chiou-shing; Lai Huei-ling
- Abstract
Integrating perspectives of grammaticalization and subjectification, this study investigates the development of the modal meaning ‘(it’s) possible that…’ from the psych verb meaning of pa3 ... ‘to fear, to be afraid of’ in Taiwanese Hakka. The syntactic and semantic distributions and collocational patterns of pa3 constructions are examined based on its actual usage drawn from Hakka Corpus. Grammaticalization processes are demonstrated to show its development from a psych verb meaning into an epistemic modal meaning denoting the uncertainty of the speaker’s subjective stance. The lexicalized forms giang1pa3 and gam3pa3 are also analyzed as to code the speaker’s belief or attitude towards a proposition. Metonymic strengthening is the key motivator behind such a development. Its use in a communication context triggers context-induced reinterpretation, giving rise to ambiguity. Pragmatic inferences are in turn conventionalized, leading to autonomous semantics.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; HAKKA dialects; MODALITY (Linguistics); GRAMMATICALIZATION; CHINESE dialects; VERBS; NOUN phrases (Grammar); LEXICON
- Publication
Chinese Studies / Hanxue Yanjiu, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 1, p305
- ISSN
0254-4466
- Publication type
Article