24 mai 2013
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Hilary Chappell et al., « Disposal and bă constructions in Chinese dialects (Part II). », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.u9esz9
The perspective and methodology involved in this section are not quite the same as in Part I. The first authro Li Lan (1998) has pointed out that there are two types of paradigmatic relations regarding grammatical words in the Sinitic languages. One is on the ‘morpheme’ level, that is, the same grammatical function will be represented by different morphemes in different dialects or even in the same dialect; the other one is on ‘word’ level, that is, the same character/word can have multiple grammatical functions. As a matter of fact, when one does research on Sinitic dialectal syntax, it is quite common that a morpheme, especially one that carries grammatical functions, will form the basic unit of investigation. Regardless of the dialect itself, or a certain morpheme in all modern Sinitic dialects, every single word has its own history. Based on this understanding, Part 2 places the object-marking construction on the ‘morpheme’ level, that is to say, no matter in which dialect the BA morpheme (or its equivalents) appears, no matter in which syntactic position it appears in a clause, and regardless of the function(s) it assumes, all will be taken into account and put under observation. We then try to exhaustively look at its usages and functions in all existing dialect materials.