英文摘要 |
This paper investigates how Hǎilù Hakka expresses the perfective aspect. There are two main ways to realize the perfective aspect. The first uses aspect markers, and the second does not use any markers at all. At present there are at least two markers of the perfective aspect in this language. One is thet5, and the other is le53. thet5 is a completive aspect marker which follows the predicate and which represents the completion or realization of an action. This marker has not been fully grammaticalized, because it still retains contentive meaning as with the example of ‘vanish'. le53 is an anterior aspect marker that also acts as a kind of modality marker, similar to le in standard Mandarin Chinese, and is located at the end of the sentence. The perfective aspect in a sentence can also be represented without any specific aspect marker. This style however needs a kind of endpoint, such as numerical expressions or other types of complement, in order to realize the perfective aspect. |