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Corpus-Based Study of the Grammaticalization and Semantic Networks of Chinese Guo and Le.

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Title/Author:	Corpus-Based Study of the Grammaticalization and Semantic Networks of Chinese Guo and Le.
Author:	Huang, Lihong.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018
Description:	367 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07, Section: A.
Notes:	Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Notes:	Advisor: Tyler, Andrea.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-07A.
Subject:	Linguistics.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10689462
ISBN:	9780355545531

Corpus-Based Study of the Grammaticalization and Semantic Networks of Chinese Guo and Le.
Huang, Lihong.

Corpus-Based Study of the Grammaticalization and Semantic Networks of Chinese Guo and Le. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 367 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Due to their polysemous nature and inter-lexical polysemy (Evans, 2015), Chinese guo [special characters omitted] and le [special characters omitted] have proven to be two of the most closely related and most puzzling linguistic items for linguists to describe and L2 learners to master. Previous studies have made important findings on the semantics of guo and le (e.g., Chao, 1968; Lu, 1980; Li & Thompson, 1981; Huang & Davis, 1989; Smith, 1997); however, no satisfying, unified account has been offered. One major gap in the previous studies is the lack of systematicity. Moreover, none of the previous studies have tried to offer complete accounts for guo and le. In addition, the inter-lexical polysemy of guo and le has not been addressed as a polysemous phenomenon in a systematic fashion in the literature. With the aim of filling these gaps, this dissertation explores the semantics of guo and le from a cognitive, usage-based approach (e.g., Langacker, 1987, 2008). Specifically, by adopting Tyler and Evans’s (2003) methodology of Principled Polysemy, this study begins the exploration from the discussion of the proto-scenes or the primary senses of guo and le, and argues that the previous studies that treated the aspectual meanings of guo and le as their central senses and the starting point of their analyses are mostly wrong-headed. Through analyzing diachronic corpus data that cover a history of 3,000 years from the Western Zhou (1046–771 BCE) to modern times, this dissertation shows how guo and le have systematically evolved from their primary senses to today’s highly polysemous phenomena. Cognitive and usage-based explanations of meaning extension are an essential part of this dissertation. Furthermore, this study establishes semantic networks for guo and le, which not only represent the diachronic grammaticalization paths (Bybee et al., 1994) of the two particles, but also the synchronic interrelationship among the meanings. Finally, the inter-lexical polysemy, i.e., the seemingly interchangeable, but subtly different uses of guo and le, is analyzed with Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (Evans, 2015). Overall, this dissertation provides a systematic, motivated and fuller account of the semantics of guo and le.

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Corpus-Based Study of the Grammaticalization and Semantic Networks of Chinese Guo and Le.
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