This paper focuses on the multifunctional non-compositional construction wanle as a discourse marker (DM) and an expressive in Modern Chinese as well as how they came into being in the history of Chinese. There have been a few works on the semantics and pragmatic function of the chunked wanle, however, none of them discusses it from a diachronic constructional perspective, and none has proposed the differences between its use as a DM and as an expressive. Based on the extensive classical data, we argue that even though both the DM and the expressive wanle originated from the inflected change-of-state verb, they developed with different trajectories. From a diachronic constructional point of view, we further argue that the development of the DM and the expressive wanle may have involved multiple mechanisms and multiple inputs.

本文重点研究了现代汉语中作为话语标记（DM）和表达的多功能非构式万勒及其在汉语史上的形成过程。关于组块万乐的语义和语用功能已经有一些著作，但没有一个从历时结构的角度讨论它，也没有人提出它作为 DM 和作为表达的区别。基于大量的经典数据，我们认为即使 DM 和富有表现力的wanle起源于屈折状态变化动词，它们以不同的轨迹发展。从历时结构的角度来看，我们进一步认为 DM 的发展和表现力的wanle可能涉及多种机制和多种输入。