共性與差異：粵方言名詞短語研究

Similarities and Differences: A Study of Nominals in Yue Dialects

本文對粵語四種方言中的名詞短語進行了調查，調查的方言包括香港粵語（廣府片）、廉江話（高陽片）、開建話（勾漏片）及賀州本地話（勾漏片）。研究的重點主要集中在以下方面：(1) 名詞短語內部的各種功能性成分的形式和分布，包括通用量詞、集體標記、複數量詞和定語助詞；(2) 名詞短語有定性的表達；(3) 定語助詞的隱現及其性質。研究發現，這四種粵方言的名詞短語在上述方面雖表現大致相同，但在許多地方還表現出差異，包括開建話和賀州本地話名詞短語中複雜的功能性成分、廉江話有定名詞短語的表現形式以及開建話的定語助詞等。

This paper investigates the nominal phrases in four Yue dialects, including Hong Kong Cantonese (Guangfu group), Lianjiang dialect (Gaoyang group), Kaijian dialect (Goulou group) and Hezhou local dialect (Goulou dialect). The investigation concerns mainly the following issues: (i) the grammatical form and syntactic distribution of the functional categories in nominal phrases, such as the general classifier, collective marker, plural classifier and modification marker; (ii) the encoding of definiteness; (iii) the occurrence of the modification marker and its grammatical property. Despite the similarities of nominal phrases in the four dialects, some differences are observed, to name but a few, the complicated form of the functional categories in Kaijian and Hezhou, the encoding of definite nominal phrases in Lianjiang and the different grammatical property of the modification marker in Kaijian.