EACS-2016. Book of Abstracts

Linguistics 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies 24 The explication of post-verbal 了 1 correlates with the semantic type of predicate — telic, and the type of argument — specified. The usage of sentence-final 了 2 differs depending on the type of predicate. When applied to dynamic predicates, 了 2 has a positive and significant correlation with dialogical speech mode and a negative correlation with the variables specified argument and narrative mode. The usage of 了 2 with static predicates correlates with dialogical mode and the position end of discourse. The appearance of 过 shows a correlation with the telic type of predicate and experiential event, while the other factors are not significant. The usage of 着 is determined by the expression of progressive, simultaneous or background event. Other factors considered are not statistically significant. The results of the analysis prove that the overall correlation coefficient (R) even in the most productive factor models vary in the range of 0.3–0.53. The degree of determination (R2) of the tested models shows that only about 25 to 42% of the usage of the markers can be explained by the impact of factors on semantic, syntactic and text-forming level. This proves that the functioning of the aspect-tense forms in speech is to a greater degree dependent on extra-linguistic and pragmatic factors.

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