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@article{item_3258984,
title = {{The polysemous lia{\textvbaraccent{}}h 力 in Early Modern Southern Min and its contemporary fate}},
author = {Lai, Yunfan},
language = {eng},
issn = {0091-3723},
doi = {10.1353/jcl.2019.0007},
publisher = {Chinese Univ. Press},
address = {Hong Kong},
year = {2019},
date = {2019},
abstract = {{Based on Early Modern Southern Min texts from Ming and Qing dynasties, this paper studies the different functions of lia{\textvbaraccent{}}h 力 in Southern Min and the grammaticalisation pathways that led to the polysemantism. The morpheme lia{\textvbaraccent{}}h could appear as a content verb meaning {\textquotesingle}to catch{\textquotesingle} or a polyfunctional case marker in Early Modern Southern Min; while in Contemporary Southern Min, its verb use has become overwhelming, and its grammatical uses are mostly fossilised. This paper hypothesises the grammaticalisation pathways of lia{\textvbaraccent{}}h by examining ambiguous constructions, and proposes that the fossilisation of the grammatical functions started with South-Western varieties of Southern Min, in which lia{\textvbaraccent{}}h was transcribed with the character 掠. The history of this word is worthy of the attention of typological studies.}},
journal = {{Journal of Chinese Linguistics}},
volume = {47},
number = {1},
pages = {193--226},
}