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SUMMARY:Taiwan Mandarin shuo ‘to say’ as a complementizer: A socioling
 uistic analysis of a grammaticalization in progress - Dominika Baran\, Duk
 e University
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CONTACT:Bert Vaux
DESCRIPTION:This paper describes the grammaticalization of the Mandarin ve
 rb shuo ‘to say’ as a complementizer in Taiwan Mandarin (T.M.). T.M. i
 s a new variety that developed out of contact among local Chinese language
 s (Holo\, Hakka) and numerous non-standard varieties of Mandarin brought o
 ver from Mainland China after 1945. \nSAY verbs (verba dicendi) are used a
 s complementizers in Holo\, Hakka and Cantonese\, as well as in Southern M
 ainland Mandarin. But in contrast to other Mandarin varieties\, in T.M. sh
 uo appears to function as a full-fledged complementizer\, rather than a qu
 otative marker in a serial verb construction. My data shows that T.M. spea
 kers also use shuo as a complementizer following not only verbs of ‘sayi
 ng\,’ such as ‘to tell\,’ but also verbs of cognition (‘to constra
 in’) and of emotion (‘to fear\,’ ‘to be angry\,’ ‘to hope’).
  The grammaticalization of shuo in T.M. thus appears to be an ongoing proc
 ess\, influenced by language contact.\nFurthermore\, speakers in Taiwan se
 em to perceive the complementizer shuo as a distinct lexical item from shu
 o meaning ‘to say.’ In a VARBRUL analysis of T.M. glide deletion where
  shuo > [sɔ]\, speakers were much more likely to use the T.M. variant if 
 shuo functioned as a complementizer than if it functioned as the verb ‘s
 ay.’ This suggests that as the grammatical function of shuo is ‘locali
 zed\,’ this is also marked by the ‘Taiwanization’ of the phonetic sh
 ape of the word.
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King's College
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