The Diachronic Development of Modal Expressions in Chinese

The Diachronic Development of Modal Expressions in ChineseThe present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross linguistic diachronic developments of modals from lexical to functional categories as upward movement on a functional spine. The temporal framework of the study covers Late Archaic and Middle Chinese. Early Middle Chinese is a crucial turning point for the development of Chinese from a more synthetic to a more analytic

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