TY - CHAP
T1 - Attitudinal applicative in action
AU - Lau, Seng Hian
AU - Tsai, Wei Tien Dylan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this study, we have investigated a rather peculiar attitudinal construal of an applicative pronoun in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM), which may well advance our understanding of the split affectivity in Chinese dialects (cf. Tsai 2017), as exemplified below: (1) Guá beh lim hōo i kàu-khuì! 1sg want drink hoo 3sg satisfied “I want to drink to my satisfaction!” It is also established that this type of pronominal usage is not specific to TSM but widely observed crosslinguistically (e.g., Vietnamese, Finnish, West Flemish, and Dominican Spanish; see Greco et al. 2017). Furthermore, the attitudinal applicative pronoun, though non-referential, has its root in an Affectee argument in association with the causative/passive marker of hōo. As it turns out, the expression hōo i has developed a speaker-oriented construal, expressing the intention to carry out the activity to the extreme.
AB - In this study, we have investigated a rather peculiar attitudinal construal of an applicative pronoun in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM), which may well advance our understanding of the split affectivity in Chinese dialects (cf. Tsai 2017), as exemplified below: (1) Guá beh lim hōo i kàu-khuì! 1sg want drink hoo 3sg satisfied “I want to drink to my satisfaction!” It is also established that this type of pronominal usage is not specific to TSM but widely observed crosslinguistically (e.g., Vietnamese, Finnish, West Flemish, and Dominican Spanish; see Greco et al. 2017). Furthermore, the attitudinal applicative pronoun, though non-referential, has its root in an Affectee argument in association with the causative/passive marker of hōo. As it turns out, the expression hōo i has developed a speaker-oriented construal, expressing the intention to carry out the activity to the extreme.
KW - Affectee argument
KW - Applicative pronoun
KW - Attitudinal applicatives
KW - Causative/passive marker of hōo
KW - Speaker-oriented construal
KW - Taiwan Southern Min (TSM)
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U2 - 10.1075/la.267.11lau
DO - 10.1075/la.267.11lau
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85114886064
T3 - Linguistik Aktuell
SP - 243
EP - 259
BT - Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography. A crosslinguistic perspective
A2 - Si, Fuzhen
A2 - Rizzi, Luigi
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
ER -