Chapter 11. Attitudinal applicative in action
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Seng-Hian Lau
Abstract
In this study, we have investigated a rather peculiar attitudinal construal of an applicative pronoun in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM), which may well advance our understanding of the split affectivity in Chinese dialects (cf. Tsai 2017), as exemplified below: (1) Guá beh lim hōo i kàu-khuì! 1sg want drink hoo 3sg satisfied “I want to drink to my satisfaction!” It is also established that this type of pronominal usage is not specific to TSM but widely observed crosslinguistically (e.g., Vietnamese, Finnish, West Flemish, and Dominican Spanish; see Greco et al. 2017). Furthermore, the attitudinal applicative pronoun, though non-referential, has its root in an Affectee argument in association with the causative/passive marker of hōo. As it turns out, the expression hōo i has developed a speaker-oriented construal, expressing the intention to carry out the activity to the extreme.
Abstract
In this study, we have investigated a rather peculiar attitudinal construal of an applicative pronoun in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM), which may well advance our understanding of the split affectivity in Chinese dialects (cf. Tsai 2017), as exemplified below: (1) Guá beh lim hōo i kàu-khuì! 1sg want drink hoo 3sg satisfied “I want to drink to my satisfaction!” It is also established that this type of pronominal usage is not specific to TSM but widely observed crosslinguistically (e.g., Vietnamese, Finnish, West Flemish, and Dominican Spanish; see Greco et al. 2017). Furthermore, the attitudinal applicative pronoun, though non-referential, has its root in an Affectee argument in association with the causative/passive marker of hōo. As it turns out, the expression hōo i has developed a speaker-oriented construal, expressing the intention to carry out the activity to the extreme.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
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Section I. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography
- Chapter 2. Cartography and selection in subjunctives and interrogatives 15
- Chapter 3. The syntax and information-structural semantics of negative inversion in English and their implications for the theory of focus 27
- Chapter 4. Invariant die and adverbial resumption in the Ghent dialect 53
- Chapter 5. Uncovering the left periphery of Etruscan 111
- Chapter 6. Subject drop in how come questions in English 127
- Chapter 7. Causativity alternation in the lower field 139
- Chapter 8. Another argument for the differences among wa -marked phrases 161
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Section II. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography
- Chapter 9. Quantifictional binding without surface c-command in Mandarin Chinese 183
- Chapter 10. Towards a cartography of light verbs 217
- Chapter 11. Attitudinal applicative in action 243
- Chapter 12. Multiple counterparts of Mandarin qu (go) in Teochew and their cartographic distributions 261
- Chapter 13. On the syntactic representation of Chinese you ( 有 ) in “ you + VP” construction 287
- Index 323
- List of contributors 328
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
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Section I. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography
- Chapter 2. Cartography and selection in subjunctives and interrogatives 15
- Chapter 3. The syntax and information-structural semantics of negative inversion in English and their implications for the theory of focus 27
- Chapter 4. Invariant die and adverbial resumption in the Ghent dialect 53
- Chapter 5. Uncovering the left periphery of Etruscan 111
- Chapter 6. Subject drop in how come questions in English 127
- Chapter 7. Causativity alternation in the lower field 139
- Chapter 8. Another argument for the differences among wa -marked phrases 161
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Section II. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography
- Chapter 9. Quantifictional binding without surface c-command in Mandarin Chinese 183
- Chapter 10. Towards a cartography of light verbs 217
- Chapter 11. Attitudinal applicative in action 243
- Chapter 12. Multiple counterparts of Mandarin qu (go) in Teochew and their cartographic distributions 261
- Chapter 13. On the syntactic representation of Chinese you ( 有 ) in “ you + VP” construction 287
- Index 323
- List of contributors 328
