A DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE ON CAUSATIVE VARIANTS AND RELATED PASSIVES IN SOUTHERN MIN - INTERFACE BETWEEN LEXICAL PROPERTIES AND CONSTRUCTION

作者：Chen I Hsuan^*; Lien Chinfa

来源：Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2011, 39(2): 311-344.

• Dynamic causative
• Stative causative
• Permissive causative
• Passive
• Grammaticalization
• Southern Min

This paper aims to tease out the paths of grammaticalization of Southern Min causative verbs, chhoa(7), (sic), kah(4), (sic), sai(2) (sic), kio(3) (sic), khit(4) (sic) and thoo(3) (sic). Their semantic extensions affect the interpretation of the pivotal construction which they all share. These causative verbs, at a light verb position, link two events which have leeway for reinterpretations. (sic), and (sic) go from dynamic causative to stative causative. and It are interpreted differently in different constructional types. As verbs of giving, they develop ditransitive constniction, then permissive causative and finally passive. The lexical properties of these verbs endow the causative construction with new meanings.

• 出版日期2011-6
• 单位清华大学