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Jiang, Yan and Wang, Wen (2021) 'Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 20. pp. 95-120.

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Abstract

This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has sentence-final particles tse and keh that have tense-marking functions. We review works by Qian (2006; 2009), Chao (1926) and Li, Thompson & Thompson (1982) and analyse Shanghainese missionary texts on the use of these SFPs. Through a functional-discoursal investigation, we identify the IN-cluster use and the END-cluster use of tse. We take the temporal marking function of tse as a consequence of its discourse function, which introduces a current reference time in the discourse. On the other hand, we take keh as an assertion particle, whose occasional sense of recent past comes from its confirmation of a completed event.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: tense, aspect, sentence-final particle, Shanghainese, missionary linguistics
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics > Department of Linguistics
ISSN: 14730855
Copyright Statement: © 2021, the author.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035585
Date Deposited: 04 Oct 2021 12:16
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/35585

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