英文摘要 |
In contemporary Taiwan, it is quite common for the word ”you/u” to exist not as a verb. Many scholarships have focused on the syntactic structure and the semantic meaning of ”you/u + VP,” but there is a lack of comprehensive understanding on ”you/u” because little attention is paid to systematic research on gathering material from corpus and the frequency of uses. Existing literature offers conflicted opinions on the parts of speech and the grammatical function change of ”you/u + VP,” but few researches discuss the relationships between ”you/u + VP” and ”you/u + AP” in explaining the widespread use of ”you/u + VP.” This research aims to clarify the following questions from the perspectives of syntax and semantics: 1. It aims to investigate all the sentence structures with the word ”you/u” in Taiwanese and Taiwan Mandarin and explore their frequency of usage. 2. It compares ”you + VP” and ”you + AP” and investigates the causes of this linguistic change. 3. It explores how the use of ”you” has changed from ”perfective” to indicate a subject's attitude of confirmation or suspicion in language contact. 4. It discusses the grammaticalization of ”you.” |