Language Contact and Change in Chinese
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Language Contact and Change in Chinese

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Language Contact and Change in Chinese

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The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world.

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The origin and development of negative exclusive particles in the Chinese language

Chirui Hu

Abstract

This paper uses the categorization of grammatical focus as a means by which to derive two types of linguistic markers signifying exclusion in the Chinese ­language, namely, affirmative exclusive particles (wei/du唯独) and negative exclusive ­particles (chu/she 除舍). This paper focuses on the origin and ­development of negative exclusive particles; their usage in denoting the meaning “except” originates from the borrowing of loan words which occurred in the translation of Buddhist scripture from Sanskrit to Chinese, whereas their usage in denoting “besides” is a result of linguistic reanalysis. This paper also explores the relationship between the two types of exclusive particles, arguing that they are deeply interconnected. Lastly, this paper points out that the origin and development of negative exclusive particles is a typical example of grammaticalization – its origin is characterized by linguistic borrowing as a result of language contact, and its development is a result of linguistic reanalysis.
Keywords: historical linguistics, exclusive particle, language contact, reanalysis, translation of Buddhist scripture into Chinese,

1 Two types of exclusive particles and two observation methods

1.1 Two types of exclusive particles

Scholars differ on the definition of grammatical focus.1 Some have put forth the view that grammatical focus refers to new information provided in discourse, while others opine that focus refers to the phrase which is being discussed; still others think that focus refers to the relationship between the objects being ­emphasized and those that are not emphasized. König (1991) and Bos (1999) a...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Theory and fact – A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact
  7. On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures
  8. The origin and development of negative exclusive particles in the Chinese language
  9. The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period
  10. Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju
  11. The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction “VP + qu (去, ‘go’)” and SOV languages
  12. On the Han’er Yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty
  13. A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua
  14. On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1424)
  15. The influence of language contact on word order of some minority languages in Southern China
  16. Second language acquisition and contact-induced language change in the history of the Chinese language
  17. Postscript
  18. Index