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

• Main Author: Lin, Jingxia
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Language; Singapore Mandarin Chinese; Speech Act Verbs
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/136889
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...