Chapter published in:
Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspectiveEdited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 267] 2021
► pp. 243–260
Chapter 11Attitudinal applicative in action
Seng-Hian Lau | National Taiwan Normal University
Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai | National Tsing Hua University
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:
“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.
(1)
Guá
1sg
beh
want
lim
drink
hōo
hoo
i
3sg
kàu-khuì!
satisfied
Keywords: attitudinal applicatives, Taiwan Southern Min (TSM), applicative pronoun, causative/passive marker of hōo
, affectee argument, speaker-oriented construal
Article outline
- 1.A peculiar pronoun
- 2.Previous studies of applicative pronouns in TSM
- 3.The (non-)referentiality of i from a crosslinguistic viewpoint
- 4.The status of attitudinal i and its habitat
- 5.The syntax of attitude: A cartographic analysis
- 6.Further consequences: A cross-dialectal perspective
- 7.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
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Published online: 12 October 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.267.11lau
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.267.11lau
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