TY - JOUR
T1 - On the “one+verbal classifier” sequence as a delimitative aspect marker in Taiwanese Southern Min
AU - Hsieh, Miao Ling
AU - Hsiao, Su Ying
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was made possible when the first author Miao-Ling Hsieh visited Academia Sinica as a visiting scholar from July 1, 2016 to Dec. 31, 2016. She would like to thank the second author Su-Ying Hsiao for hosting her visit and for her contribution to the project related to the paper. She would also like to thank the following members/visitors at the ILAS (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica) for their support and lively discussions during her stay: Chiuyu Tseng (the ILAS Director at the time), Jo-wang Lin, Rui-wen Wu, Pei-chuan Wei, Henry Y. Chang, Wei-wen Roger Liao, Chih-hsiang Shu, and Edith Aldridge. We, both authors, are grateful for the audience members at TEAL-11 in 2017, including Audrey Li, Shu-Ing Shyu, Chen-Sheng Luther Liu, and Niina Zhang, and other colleagues including Chin-Chin Tseng and Seng-hian Lau for their comments and judgment of the sentences. Last but not least, we owe the three anonymous reviewers and the editors a debt of gratitude. Without their insightful comments, the paper cannot morph into the way it is.
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PY - 2022/9/12
Y1 - 2022/9/12
N2 - This paper studies the “one+verbal classifier” sequence tsi̍ t-ē that appears after an indefinite object complement in Taiwanese Southern Min. We call it the post-complement (PC) tsi̍ t-ē. While the tsi̍ t-ē sequence can be a durative phrase when it is immediately preceded by a verb, the PC tsi̍ t-ē cannot be replaced by the durative phrase tsi̍ t-ē-á 'a while' (tsi̍ t-ē plus the diminutive suffix á) or other durative phrases. We show that the PC tsi̍ t-ē is a sentence-final particle, not a durative phrase serving as a predicate or complement. Moreover, it marks delimitativity, which means 'termination in a short time.' It is the same kind of delimitativity that verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese expresses despite the fact that the latter targets on the verb and is more selective in terms of the verb types that it can occur with. Moreover, the PC tsi̍ t-ē carries the 'down-play' meaning. Syntactically, we suggest that it heads an AspP, which occurs above a vP.
AB - This paper studies the “one+verbal classifier” sequence tsi̍ t-ē that appears after an indefinite object complement in Taiwanese Southern Min. We call it the post-complement (PC) tsi̍ t-ē. While the tsi̍ t-ē sequence can be a durative phrase when it is immediately preceded by a verb, the PC tsi̍ t-ē cannot be replaced by the durative phrase tsi̍ t-ē-á 'a while' (tsi̍ t-ē plus the diminutive suffix á) or other durative phrases. We show that the PC tsi̍ t-ē is a sentence-final particle, not a durative phrase serving as a predicate or complement. Moreover, it marks delimitativity, which means 'termination in a short time.' It is the same kind of delimitativity that verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese expresses despite the fact that the latter targets on the verb and is more selective in terms of the verb types that it can occur with. Moreover, the PC tsi̍ t-ē carries the 'down-play' meaning. Syntactically, we suggest that it heads an AspP, which occurs above a vP.
KW - durative phrase
KW - Taiwanese Southern Min
KW - the 'down-play' meaning
KW - the delimitative aspect
KW - verbal classifier
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U2 - 10.1075/lali.00119.hsi
DO - 10.1075/lali.00119.hsi
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138803407
SN - 1606-822X
VL - 23
SP - 680
EP - 709
JO - Language and Linguistics
JF - Language and Linguistics
IS - 4
ER -