Open AccessSemantic, Aspectual Category and Evidential Category of-guo
Author(s) -
Lin Zhu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
english language teaching and linguistics studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2640-9844
pISSN - 2640-9836
DOI - 10.22158/eltls.v2n4p33
Subject(s) - event (particle physics) , semantics (computer science) , event structure , meaning (existential) , term (time) , set (abstract data type) , intersubjectivity , linguistics , computer science , mathematics , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
The semantics of -guo indicates a non-empty set of a type of eventuality in a certain time frame, while the properties of term inability, discontinuity and repeatability are only pragmatic implicatures. From the viewpoint of event structure, -guo is better considered as an imperfective marker than an experiential marker which asserting the activity description and leaving the state description as a standard implicative. Forwardly, from event structure to information structure, “-guo” is developed into an indirect evidential marker. Based on social needs of reliability and extended intersubjectivity, “-guo” emphasizes the truth of events and gains the specific meaning as an interpersonal evidential.