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The Grammaticalization of the V-Dao(到)-C Verb-Complement Construction in Cantonese and the Grammatical Explanation of Its Mutually Complementary Distribution to the V-De(得)-C Verb-Complement Construction

Ziyu Liu

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This paper first makes a investigation on the usage of the V-Dao(到)-C verb-complement construction and the V-De(得)-C verb-complement construction in modern Cantonese. Then, based on the corpus of Cantonese during the 19-20 century, the author discusses the changes in the usage of the V-Dao(到)-C and the V-De(得)-C verb-complement construction in Cantonese during one hundred years. The author also makes a historical research on the grammaticalization of the V-Dao(到)-C verb-complement construction in Cantonese, and gives a grammatical explanation for it’s mutually complementary distribution to the V-De(得)-C verb-complement construction.

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Key concepts: Complement (music), Verb, Grammaticalization, Linguistics, Reflexive verb, Mathematics, Modal verb, Computer science