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Dialect grammar in two early modern Southern Min texts: A comparative study of dative kit, comitative cang and diminutive –guia.

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In this analysis, I use a typological perspective to compare certain grammatical features of modern Southern Min dialects such as Taiwanese and Amoy (Xiamen) with those found in the Southern Min translation of the Doctrina Christiana (ca. 1607) and a Southern Min grammar written in Spanish: Arte de la lengua Chiõ Chiu (1620). The specific grammatical constructions and categories which are investigated are dative, causative and passive constructions formed with kît 乞 (khit ), ‘to give’; comitative, ablative and benefactive constructions formed with câng 共 (kā) ‘with’ and the development of the diminutive marker -kìa,-ìa and -nìa 仔(-a) from the lexeme ‘son’. The objective is to ascertain if these syntactic and morphological constructions have undergone any major grammatical changes over the last 4 centuries in Southern Min. In fact, some functions of these markers prove to be similar to Taiwanese Southern Min, such as certain uses of comitative câng 共 (kā) , while other markers appear to be distinct but are found elsewhere in Min dialects such as the passive and causative marker kît 乞 (khit). The findings illustrate examples of grammatical renovation as the consequence of competing forms, phonological attrition and polysemous conceptual shift as the outcome of different paths of grammaticalization.
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hal-03931683 , version 1 (09-01-2023)

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Hilary Chappell. Dialect grammar in two early modern Southern Min texts: A comparative study of dative kit, comitative cang and diminutive –guia.. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2000, 28 (2), pp.247-302. ⟨hal-03931683⟩
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