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Publication details [#34641]

Sullivan, William J., Douglas W. Coleman, Arle R. Lommel and June C.C. Sun. 2003. The grammaticalization and lexicalization of the pragmatic marker gei wo in Mandarin. The-LACUS-Forum 29 : 349–358.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammaticalization | lexicalization | marker of conversational organization | pragmatic function

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

l'association de linguistique du Canada et des Etat-Unis

ISBN

0195-377X

Annotation

This paper examines the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization through an analysis of the pragmatic marker "gei wo" in modern mandarin Chinese.