Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu

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Main author: Jiang, Yan
Other authors: Wang, Wen
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institution SOAS, University of London
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description This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has sentence-final particles tse and keh that have tense-marking functions. We review works by Qian (2006; 2009), Chao (1926) and Li, Thompson & Thompson (1982) and analyse Shanghainese missionary texts on the use of these SFPs. Through a functional-discoursal investigation, we identify the IN-cluster use and the END-cluster use of tse. We take the temporal marking function of tse as a consequence of its discourse function, which introduces a current reference time in the discourse. On the other hand, we take keh as an assertion particle, whose occasional sense of recent past comes from its confirmation of a completed event.
format Journal Article
author Jiang, Yan
author_facet Jiang, Yan
Wang, Wen
authorStr Jiang, Yan
author_letter Jiang, Yan
author2 Wang, Wen
author2Str Wang, Wen
title Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu
publisher SOAS University of London
publishDate 2021
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35585/

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