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A study on co-occurrence of modal auxiliary verbs in Mandarin Chinese

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2021, (59), pp.39-67
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2021..59.002
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : January 10, 2021
  • Accepted : February 20, 2021
  • Published : February 28, 2021

MOON YOUMI 1 OH YOU JEONG 2

1전남대학교
2가톨릭대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article classified the auxiliary verbs from the angle of the modality and analyzed the distributional characteristics of the co-occurrence. Based on the existing discussion of modalities, this article selected 10 representative auxiliary verbs indicating epistemic modality, deontic modality, and dynamic modality, and analyzed how they are actually co-occurred in terms of corpus. In doing this, an approximate distribution of the actually co-occurred auxiliary verb combinations could be identified. The significance of this study ultimately lies in the fact that compared to previous studies relying on intuition to discuss the same issue, it could definitely present the actual possibility of co-occurrence of auxiliary verbs by demonstrating empirical figures and their distribution patterns through a large-scale illustrative analysis. These figures are expected to be also useful in the future regarding pedagogy.

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