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The Origins and Grammaticalization Paths of “Le([INSERT INLINE GRAPHIC]2)” in the Northern and Southern Mandarins
- Journal of Chinese Linguistics
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
- Volume 43, Number 2, June 2015
- pp. 668-678
- 10.1353/jcl.2015.0026
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
The periods during which the particle “le ([INSERT INLINE GRAPHIC]2)” fully developed and matured in the Northern and Southern Mandarins are different: the former in the Ming Dynasty while the latter in the Southern Song Dynasty. Also, the evolution paths of “le ([INSERT INLINE GRAPHIC]2)” in the Northern and Southern Mandarins are different: the southern “le ([INSERT INLINE GRAPHIC]2)” is derived from the phase complement “le” in the structure “verb (+ object) + le” and the northern “le ([INSERT INLINE GRAPHIC]2)”is grammaticalized from the aspect particle “le ([INSERT INLINE GRAPHIC]1)”.
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