| Summary: | 博士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 臺灣語言與語文教育研究所 === 100 === This paper mainly explores the word “敢” in Taiwanese Southern Min. “敢” is a modal word with polysemy, and it can take on rhetorical function which is context-dependent and induced by pragmatic inference. This interesting phenomenon triggers us off analyzing the parts of speech, the semantic differences, and the grammatical characters of “敢” through Southern Min corpus, and also verify its real usages by means of carrying out field investigations on the other hand. Besides, in order to realize the grammaticalization of “敢”, this paper also aims at uncovering the historical semantic change of “敢” by looking into plenty ancient documents, managing to find out possible motivations which lead to its grammaticalized progress. More importantly, “敢”alone is underspecified in meaning and its interpretation hinges on the syntactic position it occupies. Hence there is a hierarchical relation between “敢”and other functional categories in conjunction with mood. We also make a study of the categories and the hierarchy of the functional words which appear in front of a verb in Southern Min. In the meanwhile, to comprehend the hierarchy of functional words more thoroughly, the formation processes and possible limitations of this hierarchical structure are discussed in the thesis as well.
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