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Disyllabic bound forms in modern Mandarin Chinese: An analysis of yiqian and yihou
现代汉语的双音节黏着形式："以前" 和 "以后"
Feng-his Liu 刘凤樨; Christopher Oakden 欧念祖
Abstract 摘要
This study argues that along with an increasing number of monosyllabic bound morphemes, Modern Mandarin has begun to add disyllabic bound forms to its inventory of linguistic elements. Yiqian ‘before’ and yihou ‘after’ are two such examples. The behavior of phrase-final yiqian/yihou indicates that they are not nouns, postpositions, word affixes or phrasal affixes; rather, they are nominal bound forms at the phrasal-level. Thus they constitute a new category in the domain of morpho-syntax. It is suggested that the emergence of these bound forms is a consequence of the early origin and the frequency with which they occur at the phrase-final position.
本文主要探讨以前 和以后 在现代汉语里的定位。通过各种试测，我们认为词组尾端的以前 和以后 既非名词，也非后置词，词缀，或词组后缀；二者为词组里具名词性的一种粘着形式，为构词语法领域的新单位。这显示现代汉语不但单音节的粘着性词根在不断增加，双音节的粘着形式也开始出现。此形式的出现与以前，以后 在词组尾端的起源位置和在此位置出现的频率有关。
Subject Keywords 关键词
Morphology 构词法 Disyllabic bound forms 双音节粘着形式 Frequency 频率