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TY - CHAP
T1 - Evidentiality ‘In’ and ‘As’ Context
T2 - Corpus-Based Insights About the Mandarin V-过 guo Construction
AU - Tantucci, Vittorio
AU - Wang, Aiqing
PY - 2020/12/21
Y1 - 2020/12/21
N2 - In this paper we argue that evidentiality can be a category of a linguistic system that emerges from the intersection between form, usage and ‘contextual situ- atedness’. We provide a multivariate corpus-based case study about the usage of the V-过 guo construction in written Mandarin, and show how the text types in which the chunk appears significantly contribute to determine its pragmatic usage and its emer- gent meaning grounded in shared knowledge and collective recognition. This approach sheds new light on two critical issues. The first is that evidentiality is an important gram- matical category of documentary, factual and academic prose in Mandarin Chinese. The second, much broader, claim of this paper is that generalisations about grammatical/ semantic categories need to account for the usage of specific items in context. In this sense, ‘physical and sociocultural situatedness’ is as important a dimension as form and meaning in order to define categorial membership.
AB - In this paper we argue that evidentiality can be a category of a linguistic system that emerges from the intersection between form, usage and ‘contextual situ- atedness’. We provide a multivariate corpus-based case study about the usage of the V-过 guo construction in written Mandarin, and show how the text types in which the chunk appears significantly contribute to determine its pragmatic usage and its emer- gent meaning grounded in shared knowledge and collective recognition. This approach sheds new light on two critical issues. The first is that evidentiality is an important gram- matical category of documentary, factual and academic prose in Mandarin Chinese. The second, much broader, claim of this paper is that generalisations about grammatical/ semantic categories need to account for the usage of specific items in context. In this sense, ‘physical and sociocultural situatedness’ is as important a dimension as form and meaning in order to define categorial membership.
KW - Chinese
KW - corpus-based
KW - evidentiality
KW - modality
KW - pragmatics
KW - multifactorial
KW - language change
KW - historical linguistics
KW - aspect
KW - construction grammar
KW - grammaticalization
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9788869694073
VL - 6
SP - 92
EP - 121
BT - Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics
A2 - Basciano, Bianca
A2 - Morbiato, Anna
PB - Edizioni Ca' Foscari
CY - Venezia
ER -