The Southern Min dialect of Hui'an : morphosyntax and grammaticalization

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weirong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Southern Min ◽  
Min Dialect

Nominal demonstratives in the Southern Min Dialect of Hui’an

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-162
Author(s):  
Weirong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Features ◽  
Southern Min ◽  
Nous Examinons ◽  
Min Dialect ◽  
Chinese Term

This paper first clarifies the terms ‘demonstratives’ and ‘nominal demonstratives’, and how they differ from the Chinese term zhǐshì dàicí 指示代詞. We examine five sets of nominal demonstrative attested in the Southern Min dialect of Hui’an, in terms of their syntactic functions, their semantic features and their pragmatic uses. These demonstratives, which may involve syllable fusion, are marked for number, and also for type and genericity. In terms of pragmatic uses, they have not only an exophoric use, but also anaphoric, recognitional, discourse deictic, and other uses. Cet article clarifie tout d’abord les termes “démonstratif” et “déterminant démon­stratif”, et ce qui les différencie du terme chinois zhǐshì dàicí 指示代詞. Nous examinons du point de vue syntaxique, sémantique et pragmatique cinq séries de déterminants démonstratifs du nom attestés dans le dialecte min du sud de Hui’an, dont certains peuvent provenir d'une contraction syllabique. Ils sont marqués quant au nombre, au type et à la généricité. Du point de vue pragmatique, ils peuvent avoir des emplois exophorique, anaphorique, de reconnaissance, comme un emploi déictique discursif.


Acoustic cues of vowel quality to coda nasal perception in southern Min

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Chen ◽  
Vsevolod Kapatsinski ◽  
Susan Guion-Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Vowel Quality ◽  
Southern Min

Taxonomy of questions in TaiwanSouthern Min

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-299
Author(s):  
Pei-Yi Hsiao ◽  
One-Soon Her
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Southern Min ◽  
Final Question

Abstract Contra the conventional four-way distinction of syntactically-formed questions in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM): (i) yes-no, (ii) A-not-A, (iii) disjunctive, and (iv) wh-questions (e.g., Lau 2010a), we justify a more revealing dichotomy of confirmation-seeking (CS) polar questions and information-seeking (IS) constituent questions, based on a suite of semantic and syntactic tests proposed in extensive literature for Mandarin and adapted further for TSM, where A-not-A belongs to the disjunctive type, which is in turn a subcategory of IS constituent questions. Controversies over the proper status of some sentence-final question particles and kám questions are also deliberated. Dismissing some alleged polar question particles as polar or A-not-A tags, we recognize nih and honnh as interrogative polar particles. We also show that kám has two underlying forms. One is a portmanteau word of the modal kánn and the negator m̄ and thus forms a whether-or-not disjunctive question (Huang 1988a, 1991). However, when kám is short for kámkong ‘don’t tell me’, similar to the Mandarin nandao, it appears in a polar question.

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