Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types

Fujii, Seiko

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“…yaranai to ikenai). The string 'negative + to ikenai' is a conventionalized marker of obligation (Fujii 2004).…”

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Distinct functions of quotative markers: Evidence from Meidai Kaiwa Corpus

Nilep¹

2017

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Preprint of article appearing in Gengo Bunka Ronshū 35, 2013The Japanese particle 'to' serves as a quotative marker, either indicating the content of quoted speech or thought, or serving related functions. The particle 'tte' is frequently identified as an informal variant of 'to', serving identical or nearly identical functions in casual speech. Analysis of a collection of 129 informal conversations shows a clear but non-categorical tendency for the particle 'tte' to appear with verbs of speech, or at the ends of utterances with no following verb, and for the particle 'to' to appear with verbs of cognition. This tends to support earlier work based on speaker intuitions.

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“…yaranai to ikenai). The string 'negative + to ikenai' is a conventionalized marker of obligation (Fujii 2004).…”

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Distinct functions of quotative markers: Evidence from Meidai Kaiwa Corpus

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2017

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“…if I don't go quickly, it does not become; it is not good).' (Narrog 2016: 254-256) The development of (53) can be represented as [P-nai-to, ikenai] 'if not P, it is bad > [P-nai-to] 'must P' (Fujii 2004), and that of ( 54), [P-(a)nakereba, naranai] 'if not P, it is not good' > [P-(a)nakereba (naranai)] 'must P' (Narrog 2016). Both resemble fēi: 'unless P (it is not possible)' > 'must P' and to a less extent, chúfēi: '(if you want P 1 ) only if P 2 (is P 1 possible)' > '(if you want P 1 ) must P 2 '.…”

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M odal > conditional occurs in various languages, e.g. Dutch and English in (52).

Japanese and Korean use conditionals to express modal meanings (Akatsuka & Clancy 1993), some types of which have turned into modals, especially in the spoken languages, exemplifying conditional > modal .

The development of (53) can be represented as [ P - nai - to , ikenai ] ‘if not P , it is bad > [ P - nai - to ] ‘must P ’ (Fujii 2004), and that of (54), [ P -( a ) nakereba , naranai ] ‘if not P , it is not good’ > [ P -( a ) nakereba ( naranai )] ‘must P ’ (Narrog 2016). Both resemble fēi : ‘unless P (it is not possible)’ > ‘must P ’ and to a less extent, chúfēi : ‘(if you want P 1 ) only if P 2 (is P 1 possible)’ > ‘(if you want P 1 ) must P 2 ’.…”

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“…Both developments have cross-linguistic parallels. M odal > conditional is found in Germanic languages (van der Auwera & Plungian 1998) and conditional > modal in Japanese (Fujii 2004) and possibly Korean, Manchu, and Turkic languages (Rentzsch 2012: 866). In Chinese, yào ‘will; have to; if’ exemplifies modal > conditional (Yu 1998; Hsu at al.…”

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Bidirectional grammaticalization: Chinese modal and conditional

Kuo¹

2023

J. Ling.

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Using a constructional approach to morphosyntax, this study describes a triclausal construction (a type of anankastic conditional construction) and related constructions in the history of Chinese. It demonstrates that the triclausal construction constitutes a context of morphosyntactic vagueness where category boundaries between modals and conditional protasis connectives are underdetermined; consequently, bidirectional rather than unidirectional developments occur. Morphosyntactic vagueness is defined by properties shared between two morphosyntactic categories: distributional and functional similarities. Therefore, changes enabled by morphosyntactic vagueness are argued to be regular processes of change mediated by grammatical equivalence. If grammaticalization is defined as the development of morphosyntactic categories, but not in terms of non-equivalence such as unidirectionality or increased grammaticality, grammaticalization may be systematically bidirectional when enabled by morphosyntactic vagueness.

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Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

Boas¹

2010

Constructional Approaches to Language

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Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types

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Distinct functions of quotative markers: Evidence from Meidai Kaiwa Corpus

Distinct functions of quotative markers: Evidence from Meidai Kaiwa Corpus

Bidirectional grammaticalization: Chinese modal and conditional

Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

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