The Vanishing of Sentence-Final Particle ye(也)in Ancient Chinese from the Area of Qin:Take Unearthed Literature from Qin as Example
Modal particle ye(也),with extremely high frequent use in ancient literature works,yet,it is really hard to find nowadays.And whether it has completely disappeared cannot be judged hastily.In fact,Wang Hongjun(1984:159)believes that,it is extremely difficult to clearly define the time when a certain grammatical phenomenon disappears.We consider the disappearance of ye,probably influenced by frequency of use,syntactic environment or construction and character.Previous studies most focused on the function and evolution of modal particle ye.Divergence arises on the issue of whether modal particles are single functional.Based on construction grammar and relative issues,this paper describes it with Elizabeth Closs Traugott's method:[[F]]←→[[M]].And with the help of unearthed literature from Qin that are rarely rewritten by later generations,this paper also tries to clarify the vanishing of the sentence-final particle ye in ancient Chinese under the interaction of synchronic and diachronic planes,and to discuss the possibility of modal particle ye exists and spreads in oral Chinese.Still further,the paper also tries to provide a new theoretical perspective for the reinterpretation of the"ancient Chinese modal particles have no trace of preservation to this day"and the"single function theory of modal particles".
ancient Chinesemodal particleye(也)vanishingconstruction restricted by the meaning
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