Directional Verbs and Their Grammaticalization in the Shenmu Dialect of Shaanxi

作者：Xing Xiangdong^*

来源：Language and Linguistics, 2011, 12(3): 565-593.

• Jin dialects
• the dialect of Shenmu
• directional verbs
• displacement
• grammaticalization

In the Shenmu dialect of Shaanxi, the patterns of the directional verbs demonstrating the end-displacement events include: "D(2)+Loc", "D(1)+Loc+(D(2))", and "V+D(1)+Loc+(D(2))"; the patterns showing the heading items located before the linked verbal structures are "D(12)+Loc" and "V+D(12)+Loc"; the two orders of the objects of the directional verbs are "V+D(12)+O" and "V+D(1)+O+D(2)". The structure in which the verbs (sic) and (sic) are used as complements is "V+(sic)+D(2)", while those of the directional complements are "V+D+(sic)" and "V+(sic)+D", but structures using (sic) should be "V+(sic)+(sic)+(sic)" and "V+(sic)+(sic)+(sic)". The directional verbs can be used as position words, and can also be used as the objects of the preposition (sic). The usual words of directional complements have become aspect markers.

• 出版日期2011-7
• 单位陕西师范大学