In:Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives
Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona
[Typological Studies in Language 96] 2011
► pp. 61–108
From light noun to nominalizer and more
The grammaticalization of zhe and suo in Old and Middle Chinese
Published online: 29 June 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.96.02yap
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.96.02yap
In this paper, we examine how Chinese light nouns zhe and suo evolved into agent and patient nominalizers respectively. The link between nominalization, relativization and genitivization is explored from a grammaticalization perspective; likewise the frequent relationship between nominalization and clausal subordination. Other uses derived from nominalization constructions are discussed as well, among them speaker stance marking and passive voice marking.
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