Ancient English is a synthetic language that indicates the relation of words in a sentence by means of inflection while ancient Chinese is an analytic language that indicates grammatical relations by means of word order.
古英语属于综合语,其句法关系用屈折变化来表示;古汉语属于分析语,其句法关系用词序来表示。
Based on ZHANG Ji-sheng,ZHAO Yan-chun and WANG Wen-bin,the author of this paper will discuss infixation with regard to its nature and function from the perspective of continuum,shows that infixation is inflectional with syntactic functions,which,in the meantime,also tends to be derivational.
在张吉生、赵彦春和王文斌的基础上从连续体的角度来讨论中缀的性质和功能问题,认为中缀是屈折形式,完成的是语法功能,但同时也有向派生词缀过渡的性质,因此,仅从派生词缀的角度来讨论,难以弄清其实质。
The Reasons and Analysis of Loss of Inflectional Affix;
屈折词缀缺失现象、原因及分析
The paper discusses the grammatical functions of the simple tone inflection in Chinese dialects:(1) forming diminutives;(2) marking lexical or semantic distinctions;(3) forming plural or possessive of personal pronouns;(4) forming completive aspect.
本文考察汉语方言单纯声调屈折的功能,主要归纳出以下几种:构成小称(包括名词、动词、形容词、数量词、代词、副词的小称),区分词性、词义,构成人称代词的复数和领格,构成动词的完成体等,并提出对汉语方言这种现象的看法。