Publications
Publication details [#14091]
Huang, Shuanfan. 1999. The emergence of a grammatical category definite article in spoken Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (1) : 77–94. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
In spoken Chinese, the presence of definite determiners is observed in specific interactional contexts involving community shared knowledge. The distal demonstrative NAGE is identified as being in the process of grammaticalization as the definite determiner in spoken discourse.