The development of the affective construction in the Chaozhou dialect since the 19th Century

Huang, Yanxuan

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“…Overall predictions The extraordinary level of topic-prominence of Southern Min has paved the way for the emergence of head-marking constructions such as the kʰəʔ4-i1 affective and kai5-i1 disposal (Huang 2021). Though information structuring strategies like topicalization are not particularly prone to contact-induced change, prolonged intense contact may still lead to typological change in this regard 126 lin and szeto Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 52 (2023) 100-131 (Leuckert 2017), as is evident in the high-frequency use of the pa2 construction by the new generation.…”

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“…An important question is whether this tendency is observed in other situations as well. As a highly topic-prominent language, Southern Min features considerably more topicalized structures than Mandarin (Liu 2018;124 lin and szeto Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 52 (2023) 100-131 Huang 2021). Whereas the difference between Southern Min and Mandarin in using topicalized structures to express disposal meanings is a matter of frequency (cf.…”

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Disposal constructions in Chaoshan Southern Min

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Szeto

2023

Cah. Linguist. Asie Orient.

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This study examines the use of various types of disposal constructions in the Chenghai dialect of Chaoshan Southern Min. Based on the distinction between head-marking and dependent-marking grammar, we identify four types of disposal constructions, depending on the position of the marker. We performed the fruit cart task to elicit disposal constructions from 30 native speakers of this dialect. Our results indicate that zero-marking is the most dominant construction type, where topicalization represents the most common subtype; this observation is in line with Southern Min’s strong tendency towards topicalized structures. Nonetheless, despite its dominance at present, the frequency of this construction type increases with age, which suggests that it may be losing ground. Notably, according to our preliminary observation, another topicalized structure in Chenghai Southern Min also seems falling into disfavour, suggesting that the declining use of topicalization in this Chaoshan dialect may be systemic.

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Disposal constructions in Chaoshan Southern Min

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Szeto

2023

Cah. Linguist. Asie Orient.

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Middle voice in Cháoyáng Mǐn

Xiao,

Gerner

2024

Folia Linguistica

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Cháoyáng Mǐn, a dialect originating from Southeast China, exemplifies a unique instance of an isolating language featuring a middle voice. Historically, the middle voice in Cháoyáng Mǐn emerged as the culmination of a sequential transformation involving causative, passive, and anticausative constructions as intermediate stages. This unexpected alternation between valency-increasing and valency-decreasing constructions can be attributed to the grammaticalization of pro-drop (zero-anaphora) within serial verb constructions. The formal marker of all these constructions is the coverb khiɁ ‘give’ which is further merged with the expletive human pronoun i ‘s/he’ into khiɁi as a marker of the last two constructions: anticausative and middle voice. We claim that khiɁi serves as a genuine synthetical middle voice marker, whereas khiɁ fails one crucial set of data to qualify for an analytical middle voice marker.

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The development of the affective construction in the Chaozhou dialect since the 19th Century

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Disposal constructions in Chaoshan Southern Min

Disposal constructions in Chaoshan Southern Min

Middle voice in Cháoyáng Mǐn

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