Title: On the Grammaticalization Mechanism of the Monosyllable Modal Adverbs
Abstract: Among others,the motivation of grammaticalization is related to syntactic,semantic and pragmatic factors.In process that monosyllable adverbs like dou(都),ke(可),ye(也),also(并),you(又)and so on are changing into functional modal adverbs,the pragmatic routinization plays key role;the contexts which cause such routinization are the rhetorical question,the interrogative question,the contrast,the negation and so on.The routinization of contexts implicates presupposition of monosyllable modal adverbs in communication.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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