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- Title
The property concepts and the possessive verb Ū 'Have' in Taiwan Southern Min.
- Authors
Cheng, Adæmrys Chihjen
- Abstract
This paper delineates an alternative analysis of the property concepts of ū 'have' in Taiwan Southern Min, claiming that the complements serve syntactically as the nominal gradabilities through three syntactic (constituency) tests, and supported by a crosslinguistic perspective. Additionally, in the vein of Distributed Morphology, the gradability functions as an nP (also as a nominalization), in contrast with NP/DP. From a typological perspective, it is not peculiar for ū to select a nominalization of property concept to signal a reading of property-denoting. Moreover, I illustrate the semantics of a possessive property concept construction in Taiwan Southern Min, according to Francez and Koontz-Garboden (2015, 2017). I further propose a modal aspectual semantics to interpret the various temporal readings of ū. Finally, I draw a conclusion to my alternative analyses.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; POSSESSIVENESS; POSSESSIVES (Grammar); DISTRIBUTED Morphology Today: Morphemes for Morris Halle (Book); SEMANTICS
- Publication
Asian Languages & Linguistics, 2021, Vol 2, Issue 2, p217
- ISSN
2665-9336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/alal.21013.che