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Chapter1:偌Jua7and幾Kui2inTaiwaneseSouthernMin:InterpretationsBasedonValuation
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Tereisanotherword幾kui
2
,whichisalsoindeterminateastowhether
ornotitfunctionsasaquestionword.ItisglossedasChowmany?)in(5)and
(6)orCseveral,veryfew)onlyusedincombinationin(7)and(8)(Douglas
1873:251).
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
Kui
how.many
CHowmanyarticles?)
Kui
how.many
CHowmanydays?)
Kui
several
CSeveralpersons.
Bo
not.have
Conlyaveryfewpersons.
5
2
2
2
na
7
kiann
article
jit
day
lang
person
kui
many
8
)
?
2
5
.
7
?
)
lang
person
5
.
Tisstudyexploresthesyntacticandsemanticpropertiesoftheadverb
ofdegree偌jua
7
(Indet_howelement)andtheadjectiveofquantity幾kui
2
(Indet_howelement)inquestionsinTaiwaneseSouthernMin(TSM).Te
Indet_howelement偌jua
7
inTSMoccursintwokindsofconstructions:(1)
itcomprisestheadverb偌jua
7
Chow)andascalaradjective,asexemplified
in偌遠jua
7
hng
7
Chowfar)
,and(2)itconsistsoftheadverb偌jua
7
Chow)and
anounphrasemediatedbytheadjectiveofquantityfitsue
7
Cmuch,many)
,
asin偌fi册jua
7
tsue
7
tsheh
4
Chowmanybooks?)
.TeIndet_howelement幾
kui
2
bearingthefeatureof[+count]selectsthenounphrasesdenotingindi-
viduatedentitiessuchas幾*(本)冊kui
2
*(pun
2
)tsheh
4
Chowmanybooks?)
.Te
nounphrasesthatitselectsmustmeettherequirementthattheyareindivid-
uated.Teindividuationofentitiesisexpressedbythecounter(viz.,classi-
fier)本pun
2
.
Tisstudyisorganizedasfollows.Section2presentstheoreticalassump-
tions.Section3givesthestructuralconfigurationsoftheIndet_howelements
偌jua
7
and幾kui
2
,andacomparsionbetweenthem.Section4tacklesthe
Indet_howelement偌jua
7
inhistoricalperspective.Section5dealswiththe
interrogativeandindefiniteinterpretationoftheIndet_howelement偌jua
7
.
Section6addressestheexclamativesinterpretationoftheIndet_howele-
ment偌jua
7
.Section7concludesthisstudy.
