Grammaticalization and lexicalization: suggestions regarding the development of the Chinese change-of-state verb
This paper discusses the evolution of the Chinese verb 断 (duàn ‘break’), exploring how the lexicon has transformed from being a substantive transitive verb in the past to the various functions it fulfils in contemporary Chinese: i.e. a resultative complement, an adjective, an adverb and a noun. Fin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Acta Linguistica Asiatica |
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| Online Access: | https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/7844 |