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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lien, Chinfa

Titel

Polyfunctionality of Bo5 in Modern Southern Min: A Case of Its Interpretation in Tandem with Hierarchical Positions

Ist Teil von

• Language and linguistics (Taipei), 2015-01, Vol.16 (2), p.169-186

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The polyfunctionality of Bo5 in Modern Southern Min is induced by the hierarchical positions of this negative element. Bo5 can negate an explicit or implicit complement in a verb-complex optionally followed by an object noun phrase. It can also negate verb phrases or modals yielding speaker-oriented subjective senses. When followed by a verb or noun it can form an adjectival phrase bound by a scalar degree adverb. It can be a sentence-final negative particle or a discourse particle at the sentence-initial position. It has taken on a range of syntactic and semantic properties and is instrumental in forming constructions like middles and habituals, and constructions expressing epistemological stand. Adapted from the source document