文献类型：会议论文

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

作者：Lu, Ying[1];Liu, Meichun[2]

第一作者：吕勇

通讯作者：Lu, Y[1]

机构：[1]Beijing Union Univ, Teachers Coll, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China;[2]City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Linguist & Translat, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

第一机构：北京联合大学师范学院

通讯机构：[1]corresponding author), Beijing Union Univ, Teachers Coll, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.|[1141711]北京联合大学师范学院;[11417]北京联合大学;

会议论文集：21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW)

会议日期：MAY 28-30, 2020

会议地点：City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Linguist & Translat, ELECTR NETWORK

主办单位：City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Linguist & Translat

语种：英文

外文关键词：Qia ()-based lexical cluster; Semantic and grammatical change; Subjective expectation; Objective match; Grammaticalization path

摘要：This study aims to analyze the semantic change of qia (), which has experienced a grammatical shift from a monosyllabic adverb to a set of related disyllabic words. Qia 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 qia-based disyllabic words with partially shared meanings. Due to semantic weakening of qia and strengthening of a collocating predicate in the lexicalization processes, this lexical cluster acquired semantically varied meanings with different pragmatic implications. The collocation of qia with verbal elements, such as qia-rfi () and qia-si (), appeared as verbal phrases, and the adjectival qiahao () and the adverbial qiaqia () were also derived in the Tang and Song periods. Later in the Ming Dynasty, the originally adjectival qiaqiao () was used more frequently as an adverb, and a new adjective qiadang () was formed to take up the adjectival function of qiahao. The three adverbials qiahao, qiaqia and qiaqiao were then fully lexicalized. Although these disyllabic words are all derived from qia, 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.