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SUMMARY:Taiwan Mandarin shuo ‘to say’ as a complementizer: A socioling
 uistic analysis of a grammaticalization in progress - Dominika Baran\, Duk
 e University
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CONTACT:Bert Vaux
DESCRIPTION:This paper describes the grammaticalization of the Mandarin ve
 rb shuo ‘to say’ as a complementizer in Taiwan Mandarin (TM). TM is a 
 new variety that developed out of contact among local Chinese languages (H
 olo\, Hakka) and numerous non-standard varieties of Mandarin brought over 
 from Mainland China after 1945. \nSAY verbs (verba dicendi) are used as co
 mplementizers in Holo\, Hakka and Cantonese\, as well as in Southern Mainl
 and Mandarin. But in contrast to other Mandarin varieties\, in TM shuo app
 ears to function as a full-fledged complementizer\, rather than a quotativ
 e marker in a serial verb construction. My data shows that TM speakers als
 o use shuo as a complementizer following not only verbs of ‘saying\,’ 
 such as ‘to tell\,’ but also verbs of cognition (‘to constrain’) a
 nd of emotion (‘to fear\,’ ‘to be angry\,’ ‘to hope’). The gra
 mmaticalization of shuo in TM thus appears to be an ongoing process\, infl
 uenced by language contact.\nFurthermore\, speakers in Taiwan seem to perc
 eive the complementizer shuo as a distinct lexical item from shuo meaning 
 ‘to say.’ In a VARBRUL analysis of TM glide deletion where shuo > [sɔ
 ]\, speakers were much more likely to use the TM variant if shuo functione
 d as a complementizer than if it functioned as the verb ‘say.’ This su
 ggests that as the grammatical function of shuo is ‘localized\,’ this 
 is also marked by the ‘Taiwanization’ of the phonetic shape of the wor
 d.
LOCATION:Audit Room\, King's College
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