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Words ‘exist’, ‘go’ and the continuous aspects in Lianjiang Yue dialect

In: Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
Author:
Huayong Lin
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24 Jan 2011
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Some continuous aspects are usually grammaticalized from “Prep. + Loc.” in Chinese, so are in Lianjiang Yue dialect, west Guangdong Province. Different to Cantonese in Guangzhou, in Lianjiang Yue dialect, there are three kinds of continuous aspects which show action in progress, state continuance and situation continuance, while appropriately their positions in the sentences should be at the position of adverb, after verb phrase, and at the end of sentence. When the phrases composed by words ‘exist (在)’ and ‘go (走)’ show the meanings of action in progress and state continuance, they are different subtly, and only the word ‘exist’is used as a sentence particle.

Title:
Words ‘exist’, ‘go’ and the continuous aspects in Lianjiang Yue dialect
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-90000066
Language:
English
Pages:
305–322
Keywords:
Lianjiang Yue dialect; local preposition; grammaticalization; continuous aspect
In:
Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
In:
Volume 4: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
2405-478X
Print ISSN:
1933-6985
Subjects:
China, Asian Studies, Uralic, Altaic & East Asian Languages, Languages and Linguistics

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