Sentence-Final Particles (SFPS): A Usage-Based Constructionist Approach

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dc.contributor.advisorJing-Schmidt, Zhuo
dc.contributor.authorZhu, Lin
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-13T18:33:47Z
dc.date.available2021-09-13T18:33:47Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-13
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation adopts the usage-based constructionist approach to investigate three sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Mandarin Chinese, bei, ne, and a, with the help of British corpus linguistics techniques. The study is based on data collected from the BCC corpus and the instant communication tool WeChat. The results show that their functions are best understood holistically as part of those constructions, instead of associating functions with SFPs as morphemes. This study therefore demystifies the long-held belief that SFPs are elusive.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26611
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectconstruction grammaren_US
dc.subjectcorpus linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectMandarinen_US
dc.subjectpragmaticsen_US
dc.subjectsemantic prosodyen_US
dc.subjectsentence-final particleen_US
dc.titleSentence-Final Particles (SFPS): A Usage-Based Constructionist Approach
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of East Asian Languages and Literatures
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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