Some temporal expressions in early Southern Min play scripts

Autor:	Chinfa Lien
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language business.industry Artificial intelligence business computer.software_genre Temporal expressions computer Language and Linguistics Natural language processing
Zdroj:	Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 50:245-268
ISSN:	1960-6028 0153-3320
DOI:	10.1163/19606028-05002001
Popis:	Drawing on the data in early Southern Min play scripts, this paper explores temporal expressions—in particular temporal adverbials—which bear on the issues of their grammatical categories and syntactic placement. Considerable space is devoted to clarifying two kinds of distinctions of temporal adverbials on the strength of attested examples. A distinction is made between deictic temporal adverbials and determiner phrase-derived temporal adverbials. Similarly, durative adverbials are shown to behave differently from punctual adverbials. Finally, I argue that the metonymic semantic shift of deictic temporal adverbials denoting tomorrow and yesterday/the day before yesterday is grounded in the constraint of proximity to the deictic center of today in connection with the backdrop of diachronic development.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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