Jiang, Yan (2025) 'Temporal information in sentence-final particles.' Asian Languages and Linguistics, 5 (2). pp. 251-280.
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 analyze 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 (con)-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 |
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| Keywords: | aspect; missionary linguistics; sentence-final particle; Shanghainese; tense |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 26659336 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1075/alal.24007.jia |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2025 07:34 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/43425 |
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