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Die Königin Luise im Sonnenscheine reichen Glückes
Zeitschrift
- Titel:
- Folia linguistica
- Erschienen:
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Berlin [u.a.]: Mouton de Gruyter
- Fußnote:
- Gesehen am 19.09.07
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- Online-Ressource
- ISSN:
- 1614-7308
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2202459-1
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- 15137981
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Aufsatz
- Titel:
- Multifunctionality matters: preverbal yǒu in Mandarin and its aspectual potential
- Erschienen:
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Berlin [u.a.]: Mouton de Gruyter, 2025
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Zusammenfassung:
- Abstract: This article confronts a multifunctional grammaticalized form in Mandarin, the preverbal morpheme yǒu (有). Since its appearance in the Chinese mainland around the 1990s, there has been controversy about whether it is an aspect marker or not. In response to this question, we conducted a questionnaire survey to investigate how native Mandarin speakers generally understand sentences with preverbal yǒu. The results not only show that preverbal yǒu can serve as a perfective viewpoint marker that makes the terminal boundary of an event semantically visible, but also provide evidence of its other function as an existential marker. The concrete function of preverbal yǒu (perfective or existential) depends on pragmatic inference based on the temporal properties of a given situation. With this observation, the paper resolves the controversy of which of these two functions actually applies to preverbal yǒu, and integrates this marker into the broader context of pragmatics-based multifunctionality as it is widely found in Sinitic and mainland Southeast Asian languages.
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- Online-Ressource
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- Kein Open Access
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- Schlagworte:
- multifunctionality ; grammaticalization ; aspect ; pragmatic inference ; Mandarin preverbal yǒu
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