Entre réalisable et réalisé : DE et LIAO potentiels en chinois du nord

Christine Lamarre (1)

1 CRLAO - Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale

This paper discusses two grammatical formatives which encode a potential meaning when added to a resultative compound : DE in Standard Mandarin (which comes from the verb 'get'), and LIAO/LAO in some non-standard Northern Mandarin dialects. Both forms also show a perfectivizing function in other environments. The potential suffix LIAO was never discussed before in the literature, whereas DE and its historical development are a much studied topic. We analyze the link between their potential (modal) value and their perfective (aspectual) value, including the hypothesis of a possible haplology to account for potential V-de or V-liao forms.

Mots clés: potential suffix; Chinese; Northern Mandarin; liao; de

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Linguistique

Christine Lamarre. Entre réalisable et réalisé : DE et LIAO potentiels en chinois du nord. Cahiers de linguistique - Asie Orientale, 1994, pp.155-167. ⟨10.3406/clao.1994.1776⟩. ⟨hal-01492335⟩