Dialectal distribution of V-neg-VO and VO-neg-V interrogative sentence patterns
汉语方言中 V-neg-VO 和 VO-neg-V 问句句型分布的探讨
De-xi Zhu 朱德熙
Abstract 摘要
This article is a continuation of Zhu (1985) and is attempting to demonstrate the following points: (1) The distinction between the interrogative sentence patterns VO-neg-V and V-neg-VO is of typological significance. The former prevails in northern Chinese dialects while the latter is employed mostly in Southern Chinese dialects. (2) There are dialects of the V-neg-VO type in which the V-neg-VO construction always contract to VVO. The process of contraction is either through the deletion of the negative or due to the fusion of the verb plus the negative. The different processes of contraction are also typologically significant.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics volume 18 (ISSN 0091-3723)
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