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On the Syntactic Hierarchy of Sentence-Final Lai and Qu in Mandarin.

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Title/Author:	On the Syntactic Hierarchy of Sentence-Final Lai and Qu in Mandarin./
Author:	Huang, Xinjunrong.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	146 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-08A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13837829
ISBN:	9780438851276

On the Syntactic Hierarchy of Sentence-Final Lai and Qu in Mandarin.
Huang, Xinjunrong.

On the Syntactic Hierarchy of Sentence-Final Lai and Qu in Mandarin. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 146 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation probes into a series of syntactic and semantic phenomena in Mandarin where VP co-occurs with the directional morpheme lai 'come' or qu 'go'. Three types of [VP-lai/qu] constructions are identified: verb-directional (type I), serial-verb (type II), and the one where lai and qu are sentence-final and interpreted with irrealis mood (type III). It is argued that in type I and II lai and qu function as main verbs; in type III they are neither verbs nor tense-aspect markers, but instead should be categorized as a kind of sentence-final particles strongly related to the event semantics denoted by the verb. In particular, lai and qu of type III occur at vP, the lowest level in the periphery hosting postverbal functional categories, and express irrealis meanings. Moreover, in the [lai/qu-VP] construction, lai and qu also come in two variants, and syntactic positioning is crucial in distinguishing one from the other. Specifically, lai and qu as directional verbs express spatial movements and can cooccur with noun phrases denoting the end location; lai and qu of this type are not interchangeable. In contrast, lai and qu as auxiliary verbs serve to mediate between an event denoted by a matrix clause and a purpose-oriented event denoted by an embedded clause; lai and qu of this type are interchangeable without changes in meaning. It is shown that lai and qu as main verbs, auxiliaries and sentence-final particles form a grammaticalization continuum, where some instances of lai and qu sit at the one end characterizing functional/abstract meaning, some at the other end pertaining to lexical meaning, and others at mid-way. Similar grammaticalization phenomena can also be observed for directional verbs, in many other dialects and languages within and outside of China, which can express purpose-oriented as well as irrealis semantics. The findings of this work based on Mandarin therefore constitute another case in support of Universal Grammar.

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On the Syntactic Hierarchy of Sentence-Final Lai and Qu in Mandarin.
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