A Typological Discussion of the Predicates Expressing Possessive Meaning “to have” in Taiwan Mandarin and Czech — a Learner Corpus-Based Study

Studie z Aplikované Lingvistiky

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Melissa Shih-hui Lin¹ 

[1] Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan;

关键词: Czech;    grammaticalization;    learner corpus;    possessive;    Taiwan Mandarin;    typology;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The main purpose of this research paper is to investigate predicates expressing the possessive meaning“to have” in Taiwan Mandarin and Czech. In Taiwan Mandarin, the word you has the semanticmeaning of “to have” and “to exist” (Huang, 1987; Her, 1991). Mít in Czech, however, has three mainusages (Daneš, 1987; Karlík — Nekula — Rusínová, 1995; 1996; Čechová, 2000; Cvrček, 2010): it is usedas a modal, an auxiliary or a possessive verb. According to the language data collected from Taiwanesestudents who study Czech, these students often use mít in Czech to express not only possessionbut also existence, or they incorrectly use it as an auxiliary — in other words — their knowledge ofyou in Taiwan Mandarin seems to interfere (Brown, 2007) with their usage of mít in Czech. In thispaper, firstly, relevant literature dealing with the usages of you in Taiwan Mandarin and mít in Czechwill be introduced; secondly, there will follow a discussion of the language data collected from theNCCU foreign language learner corpus; thirdly, the grammaticalization theory (Heine, 1997) will beapplied to investigate Taiwan Mandarin you and Czech mít, which shall offer a number of explanationsregarding the observable typological diversity across these two languages. In spite of the factthat there are similar research papers related to the expression of possessive meaning in these twolanguages, this paper assumes that the cross-linguistic typological discussion shall bring more insightinto the characteristics of these two languages. Furthermore, apart from advancing the typologicaldiscussion of these two languages, it is expected that this paper will also aid the preparationof related textbooks and teaching materials.

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