英文摘要 |
This paper aims to trace the origins and reconstruct the path of grammaticalization of three complement markers, namely, kɤŋ54, tu11 and li22, in the She language, a Hmong-Mien language spoken by around 1,500 people in the mountainous areas of eastern Guangdong. It is pointed out that the neighboring Chinese dialects, especially Hakka and Southern Min, have played important roles in shaping the mode of division of labor of these three complement markers in She. Various theories of grammaticalization, including the newly developed contactinduced grammaticalization, are introduced to explain the parallel development of complement markers in southern Chinese dialects and She. |