Abstract
Zhiyu can be used as a conjunction and an adverb in Mandarin Chinese. This research focuses on the polylexicalization and grammaticalization of this word. The conjunction zhiyu derives from the “verb +preposition” construction “zhi+yu”, which means “arrive at/in”, while the adverb zhiyu comes from the same construction means “result in”. According to the development of these homographs, the mechanism of polylexicalization is the differentiation of morpheme meanings. Additionally, texts also provide conditions for meaning change. When zhiyu became two different words, the grammaticalization progresses of both words happened separately.
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Kou, X. (2018). The Polylexicalization and Grammaticalization of Zhiyu. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10709 LNAI, pp. 235–242). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_20
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