Morphosyntactic vagueness and directionality

Kuo, Yueh Hsin

doi:10.1515/gcla-2021-0005

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“…The ditransitive construction has the form [SUBJECT VERB OBJECT 1 OBJECT 2 ] with the meaning 'X causes Y to receive Z' (Goldberg 1995). See Zhan & Traugott (2015), Zhan (2017), Peng (2017), and Kuo (2020, 2021, 2022a for complex constructions in Chinese.…”

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“…Tuggy 1993). In morphosyntax, a context is vague when the morphosyntactic category of an item is underdetermined and has multiple compatible morphosyntactic analyses but does not require a precise one (Denison 2017(Denison , 2018Kuo 2021Kuo , 2022a. As a vague context is where boundaries are blurred, an item in a vague context may change its morphosyntactic category (Denison 2017: 305).…”

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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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Bidirectional grammaticalization: Chinese modal and conditional

Kuo¹

2023

J. Ling.

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From deontic modality to conditionality

Kuo

2022

JHP

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While epistemic modality has been suggested to be a modal source of conditionality, deontic modality has been generally overlooked. Using data from Classical Chinese and the Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change, this study demonstrates that the deontic modal bi tends to invite inferences of conditionality in contexts where it is used teleologically and performatively as an indirect speech act of advice. That is, conditionality can emerge out of an interaction of teleological and performative meanings. Furthermore, three conditions are identified as where teleological, performative and conditional meanings enable the inferencing of the deontic modal bi as a conditional protasis connective. The absence of one or more of these conditions is shown to be less likely to invite inferences of conditionality.

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Morphosyntactic vagueness and directionality

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Bidirectional grammaticalization: Chinese modal and conditional

Bidirectional grammaticalization: Chinese modal and conditional

From deontic modality to conditionality

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