Aspectual marker: Issues of zhe of grammaticalization in the history of Chinese and Wu dialects
关于汉语史和吴方言史中体标记“着”语法化问题的探讨
Guofu Long 龙国富; Chaofen Sun 孙朝奋
Abstract 摘要
This article discusses the aspectual marker zhe in the historical texts of Chinese and Wu dialects. Zhe was an imperfective marker in the history of Chinese and was never used as a perfective marker. Historically, zhe called as perfective marker was actually still a phase complement of lexical compound, but not a grammatical perfective marker in the Song and Yuan dynasties. Whereas the aspectual marker zhe were imperfective and perfective markers and a complement marker of state in the historical texts of Wu dialects. The perfective developed from its imperfective; i.e., a phase complement into imperfective, then from imperfective into perfective. The article further proposes that the context from which the aspectual marker zhe was induced is an adverbial clause.
Subject Keywords 关键词
zhe 着 Aspectual Marker 体标记 History of Chinese and Wu Dialects 汉语史和吴方言史 Grammaticalization 语法化 Typology 类型学 着 Aspectual Marker 体标记 History of Chinese and Wu Dialects 汉语史和吴方言史 Grammaticalization 语法化 Typology 类型学