Les structures en BA en chinois vernaculaire médiéval et moderne. - article ; n°2 ; vol.14, pg 193-213

Alain Peyraube

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Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale - Année 1985 - Volume 14 - Numéro 2 - Pages 193-213
The BA constructions (SNO-subject +BA + SN1-object + SV in medieval and modern Chinese (8th-16th centuries) are not subjected to any of the fundamental constraints which regulate the same constructions in contemporary Chinese. Particularly, there is no constraint according to which the verb cannot be at the final position and must be followed by another constituent. The earliest BA forms are final verb forms, and several of these verbs are even monosyllabic, not being preceded by adverbials. It is therefore impossible that the surface structure condition of Huang Shuan-fan (1984) could explain the origin and the development of accusative markers BA. The BA constructions come from serial verbs constructions V1 BA + O + V2 , where the object (O) is at the same time object of V1 and V2. This structure itself comes synchronically from V1 BA + 01 + V2 + 02 by deleting the second object (02), when this latter is identical to the first (01). The verb BA's full meaning has been then taken away, and, through a grammaticalization process, a preposition has taken place to introduce pre-verbal objects. This diachronic derivation (V1 BA + 0 + V2 > PREP BA + 0 + V) occurred between the 7th and the 8th centuries.
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• Publié le: 01 janvier 1985
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Alain Peyraube

Les structures en BA en chinois vernaculaire médiéval et

moderne.

In: Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, vol. 14 n°2, 1985. pp. 193-213.

Abstract

The BA constructions ("SNO-subject +BA + SN1-object + SV" in medieval and modern Chinese (8th-16th centuries) are not

subjected to any of the fundamental constraints which regulate the same constructions in contemporary Chinese. Particularly,

there is no constraint according to which the verb cannot be at the final position and must be followed by another constituent. The

earliest BA forms are final verb forms, and several of these verbs are even monosyllabic, not being preceded by adverbials. It is

therefore impossible that the surface structure condition of Huang Shuan-fan (1984) could explain the origin and the development

of accusative markers BA. The BA constructions come from serial verbs constructions "V1 BA + O + V2" , where the object (O) is

at the same time object of V1 and V2. This structure itself comes synchronically from "V1 BA + 01 + V2 + 02" by deleting the

second object (02), when this latter is identical to the first (01). The verb BA's full meaning has been then taken away, and,

through a grammaticalization process, a preposition has taken place to introduce pre-verbal objects. This diachronic derivation

("V1 BA + 0 + V2" > "PREP BA + 0 + V") occurred between the 7th and the 8th centuries.

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Peyraube Alain. Les structures en BA en chinois vernaculaire médiéval et moderne. In: Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale,

vol. 14 n°2, 1985. pp. 193-213.

doi : 10.3406/clao.1985.1176

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/clao_0153-3320_1985_num_14_2_1176