On the time-encoding function of the sentence-final particle tse in modern Shanghainese
Main author: | Jiang, Yan |
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Other authors: | Wang, Wen |
Format: | Book Chapters |
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SOAS, University of London |
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SOAS Research Online |
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English |
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English |
topic |
P Philology. Linguistics PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
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This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has a sentence-final particle tse that has a tense-marking function. We review works by Nairong Qian (2006; 2009), Yuen Ren Chao (1926), and Li et al. (1982) and analyse Shanghainese missionary texts on the use of tse. 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 |
author_additional |
Chiang, Min-Hua |
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Chiang, Min-Hua |
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Book Chapters |
author |
Jiang, Yan |
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Jiang, Yan Wang, Wen |
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Jiang, Yan |
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Jiang, Yan |
author2 |
Wang, Wen |
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Wang, Wen |
title |
On the time-encoding function of the sentence-final particle tse in modern Shanghainese |
publisher |
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica |
publishDate |
2023 |
url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/39857/
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