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- Title
臺灣海陸客語高調與小稱的關係.
- Authors
賴文英
- Abstract
It has been well-established that the lexical items that can be used with a diminutive marker differ between Chinese dialects. There are a group of words, such as keu 狗, Зioη 羊, heu 猴, ηo 鹅, that are not considered to be diminutives in Taiwan Hailu Hakka dialects. However, this paper claims that this is because the high tone of this group of lexical items has caused the phonetic change of diminutives in this group to occur faster than in other groups. Further, the balancing effect between the diminutives of area dialects has. set the sound change of diminutives in Hailu Hakka on a course of unbalanced development. This paper aims to study the lexical items with high tones connoting a diminutive in Hailu Hakka dialect. The morphological forms of diminutives have been inclined to disappear, but it is still clear that the diminutives survive in features such as a long vowel, long sound, or high tone. These surviving forms suggest that these diminutives in Hailu dialects originally had a morphological form, and that that form probably was (∂^55).
- Subjects
HAKKA dialects; CHINESE literature; DIMINUTIVES (Grammar); DIALECTS; LEXICOLOGY
- Publication
Chinese Studies / Hanxue Yanjiu, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 4, p295
- ISSN
0254-4466
- Publication type
Article