Clitic pronouns in Archaic Chinese

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19088847
AutoresRedouane Djamouri (CNRS-EHESS-INALCO, Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale, autor correspondente), Willow Paul (0000-0001-6154-4536, CNRS-EHESS-INALCO, Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale)
Ano2020
Volume11
Fascículo1
Páginas60-101
Data de publicação2020-12-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Historical Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2210-2116 • E-ISSN: 2210-2124
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jhl.19024.dja
OpenAlexW2734685181
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas17

This article provides evidence for the so far neglected existence of two clitic pronouns, yǐ 以 and yǔ 與, in Archaic Chinese (10th c. – 3rd c. BC) in immediately verb-adjacent position: ‘ yǐ/yǔ -V’. While yǔ only encodes the comitative/associative, yǐ encodes all kinds of (argument and adjunct) roles, depending on the semantics of the verb involved. We argue that the clitic pronouns yǐ and yǔ can neither be analysed as stranded prepositions left behind after extraction of their complement (as, e.g., in English) nor as orphan prepositions , i.e., PPs with an in situ null pronoun as complement (as, e.g., in French). This ties in with the general ban against prepositions lacking an overt complement, observed throughout the history of Chinese

Clitic · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Personal pronoun · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence