Abstract
This paper investigates the morphosyntactic properties of the mutually dependent markers in three representative constructions in Mandarin: the disjunctive yaome… yaome ‘or…or’ construction, the metalinguistic comparative yuqi…buru ‘than… rather’ construction, and the simultaneous temporal yibian…yibian ‘when…when’ construction. It argues that the two mutually dependent markers in each of these constructions originate from the morphological split of a functional element that unifies coordinate and modification constructions.
Language: English
Page range: 75 - 94
Submitted on: Jul 18, 2023
Accepted on: Sep 14, 2023
Published on: Sep 14, 2024
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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