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The Genesis of the Counterfactual Conditional Structure “bushi C1, C2”

ZHU Li-shi , YANG Yong-long   

  1. Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 102488;
    Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China
  • Received:2018-02-22 Online:2018-09-10 Published:2018-10-18

Abstract: The clausal combination occurs along with the grammaticalization regarding "bushi (not be) N/C" from negative judgment to counterfactual conditional. In the construction " bushi N1/C1, jiushi N2/ C2 ","bushi" is reanalyzed as conditional subordinator by "negative words +copula". The reanalysis is triggered by the fact that two differing logic relations employ the same syntactic structure, and by the underlying commonality of the "preceding presupposition" between negative and conditional structures. Specifically, as "bushi" being the subordinator indicating the counterfactual conditions, the semantic of the clauses are dependent on each other, the syntax is not embedded, and the clausal combination occurs so as to facilitate the transition from coordination to subordination. The co-variation between the copula-to-conditional grammaticalization and the clausal combination has undergone dynamic evolutionary processes.

Key words: bushi, counterfactual conditional, coordination, co-subordination, subordination, clausal combination

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  • H146.3
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