文献类型：会议论文

英文题名：Grammatical Development and Semantic Change of the Qià-Based Lexical Cluster: From Objective Match to Subjective Evaluation

作者：Lu, Ying[1]; Liu, Meichun[2]

通讯作者：Lu, Y.[1]

机构：[1] Teacher’s College, Beijing Union University, Beijing, 100101, China; [2] Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

第一机构：北京联合大学师范学院

会议论文集：Chinese Lexical Semantics - 21st Workshop, CLSW 2020, Revised Selected Papers

会议日期：May 28, 2020 - May 30, 2020

会议地点：Virtual, Online

语种：英文

外文关键词：Artificial intelligence - Computers

摘要：This study aims to analyze the semantic change of qià, which has experienced a grammatical shift from a monosyllabic adverb to a set of related disyllabic words. Qià first appeared in the Six Dynasties as a pre-verbal adverb to express a coincidental situation in time, space, or quantity. It then began to collocate with a predictive element to form a cluster of qià-based disyllabic words with partially shared meanings. Due to semantic weakening of qià and strengthening of a collocating predicate in the lexicalization processes, this lexical cluster acquired semantically varied meanings with different pragmatic implications. The collocation of qià with verbal elements, such as qià-rú and qià-sì, appeared as verbal phrases, and the adjectival qiàho and the adverbial qiàqià were also derived in the Tang and Song periods. Later in the Ming Dynasty, the originally adjectival qiàqio was used more frequently as an adverb, and a new adjective qiàdàng was formed to take up the adjectival function of qiàho. The three adverbials qiàho, qiàqià and qiàqio were then fully lexicalized. Although these disyllabic words are all derived from qià, they differ in semantic and pragmatic functions in profiling various facets and evaluative polarities in terms of expectation or presupposition and eventually acquired more subjectivized meanings. This study shows that the grammaticalization processes of the lexical cluster were triggered by usage-based collocational patterns and have undergone semantic changes in line with the pragmatic force of subjectification. ? Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.