Kam-siu Cheung

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Yap, Foong Ha, Fanny Pik-ling Choi and Kam-siu Cheung 2010 Delexicalizing di: How a Chinese noun has evolved into an attitudinal nominalizer Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research, Van linden, An, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 63–92 | Article
This paper traces the semantic extension of the Chinese locative/spatial noun di (‘bottom’) into a nominalizer, which further develops into a relativizer and genitive marker, and also into an adverbial subordinator and an attitudinal or stance marker. As subordinator and stance marker, di is… read more