Publisher:ISCCAC
Plural Endings: A Study on Yibin Dialect
Authors
Yan Guo
Corresponding Author
Yan Guo
Publishing Date
28 December 2023
Keywords
Yibin dialect, Plural, Endings.
Abstract
The Yibin dialect, belonging to the Minjiang subgroup of Southwestern Mandarin, exhibits distinctive plural endings for nouns and pronouns, specifically -xie, -men, and -huo. Among these, -xie is applicable to all nouns or pronouns except for singular personal pronouns. Meanwhile, -men is affixed to personal pronouns, honorifics, and collective nouns, while -huo primarily manifests in fixed expressions. These three markers exhibit variations at the grammatical level, the semantic level, and the pragmatic level.
Copyright
© 2023, the Authors. Published by ISCCAC
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license
