John Xiang-ling Dai

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Xiang-ling Dai, John 1990 Historical Morphologization of Syntactic Words: Evidence from Chinese Derived Verbs Diachronica 7:1, pp. 9–46 | Article
SUMMARY Syntactic and morphological tests demonstrate that bound forms in some disyllabic verbs in Modern Chinese have been diachronically morphologized from independent verbs in Ancient Chinese. The morphologization results not only from sound change, but also from meaning loss or generalization… read more