A corpus-based study on the grammaticalization of được in Vietnamese
| dc.contributor.author | Nguyen, Thu Trang | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Ghomeshi, Jila (Linguistics) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Cooper, Audrey C. (Anthropology) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.guestmembers | Cacoullos, Rena Torres (Penn State University) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Janzen, Terry (Linguistics) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-12T15:50:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-01-12T15:50:15Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2021-01-04 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2021-01-05T05:02:49Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation explores the grammaticalization of the morpheme được ‘acquire positively’ from a lexical verb to a passive and modality marker in Vietnamese through diachronic and synchronic corpora. This study uses three corpora including the Vietnamese Newspaper Corpus containing newspapers from 1916 to 2015, the Vietnamese Online Newspaper Corpus collecting recent online newspapers from 2013 to 2017, and the Vietnamese Spoken Corpus containing spoken language from talk shows, video blogs, and live streams on YouTube from 2010 to 2017. Based on the token frequency of được in the corpora and the grammaticalization framework of Hopper and Traugott (1993, 2003) I examine the emergence of passive and modality meanings of preverbal được and postverbal được and propose the development paths of these meanings. The results reveal that lexical được ‘acquire positively’ was grammaticalized into the preverbal marker được indicating passive, possibility, permission, and preferential meanings. The rise of passive được have taken place recently as evidenced by the recent outburst of token frequency. I argue that được maintains a sense of the positive judgement in passives, leading to the rise of preferential được. Lexical được ‘succeed’ gave rise to postverbal được marking ability and possibility. Postverbal possibility được is more common, suggesting that it has become entrenched recently. I show different approaches to the development of grammatical meanings of được. Different mechanisms, such as metaphor and analogy, metonymy and reanalysis, can contribute to the production of new meanings of được. Pragmatic inference and particularly metonymic inference with high token frequency also have a major impact on the grammaticalization of được, allowing an implicature to become a distinct meaning or drive a construction to emancipate from an old function and acquire a new one. Also, I present that the historical development paths of meanings of preverbal and postverbal được can be sketched from two perspectives from Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca (1994) and Van der Auwera, Kehayov, and Vittrant (2009). However, I claim that the development path for preverbal được may have started from possibility, to permission and preferential in two separate paths. For postverbal được, ability is generalized initially, leading to possibility. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | February 2021 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | APA | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/35202 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Được | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vietnamese | en_US |
| dc.subject | Grammaticalization | en_US |
| dc.subject | Passive | en_US |
| dc.subject | Modality | en_US |
| dc.subject | Preverbal | en_US |
| dc.subject | Postverbal | en_US |
| dc.title | A corpus-based study on the grammaticalization of được in Vietnamese | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |