Grammaticalization of Shuo and Jiang in Singapore Mandarin Chinese : a spoken-corpus-based study

This study investigates the extended grammatical uses of the speech act verbs 说 shuo ‘say’ and 讲 jiang ‘say’ in Singapore Mandarin Chinese (SMC). With data from a contemporary spoken corpus, this study finds that while both 说 and 讲 are the major speech act verbs in SMC, 说 has been more grammatically...

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Main Author: Lin, Jingxia
Other Authors: School of Humanities
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/136889
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English