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Peer reviewedShi, Ziqiang – Language Variation and Change, 1989
The grammaticalization of "liao" as a main verb in tenth-century vernacular texts to "le" as an aspectual particle in modern Chinese is investigated. The change is attributed to the resultative construction coming into existence in the language and to instances where the verb took sentential subjects or occurred in temporal clauses only. (17…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Usage, Language Variation, Mandarin Chinese
