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A Semantic Study on the Adverb ‘YIJING’
The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
Abbr :
JSLCKC
2015, (39), pp.97-120
DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2015..39.005
Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
Research Area : Chinese Language and Literature
2015, (39), pp.97-120
DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2015..39.005
Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
Research Area : Chinese Language and Literature
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‘YIJING’ has been considered to have the temporal meaning of ‘anteriority’, but this meaning somewhat overlaps with the meaning of ‘LE2’. So scholars have tried to find some unique meanings of ‘YIJING’ which are distinct from ‘LE2’. Recent studies claim that ‘YIJING’ has some pragmatic functions such as ‘subjective large quantity’, ‘counter expectation’ or ‘confirmation of the truth of an event’. But we claim that these pragmatic functions emerge from ‘anteriority’ depending on the context. In order to prove this, we reviewed ‘anteriority’ again. ‘LE2’ means that an event happened before reference time, and it is usually used when an event happened right before reference time. ‘YIJING’ also means ‘anteriority’, but it is used when an event happened relatively long before reference time. Besides, ‘YIJING’ is used only when ‘anteriority’ is the focus of the context.
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