英文摘要 |
There used to be two different positions regarding the source of the Hakka genitive: (1)Sound Corporation and (2)Case Changed. Neither theory explains well the processes involved. Case Changed, moreover, involves morphology not regular to Chinese dialects. This paper is a study of the source of the Hakka personal pronoun and the genitive from the viewpoint of the diminutive, and it addresses six issues. (1)Does “case morphology” exist within Chinese dialects? (2)How does the personal pronoun change into the genitive within Hakka dialects? (3)Why are there such similar pronoun systems between Hakka dialects and Southwest minority languages? (4)What kind of relations do they have between different genitive forms in Hakka dialects? (5)Why do the genitives of Hakka belong to different tone categories? (6)What is the relation between genitive and diminutive? This paper claims that the tone pitch of the genitive is motivated by the same sound change as the diminutive, which also represents intimacy. With the genitive construction of 「X+(structural particle) +NP」, “X” can be the form of a personal pronoun or genitive, and “structural particle” can occur or not depending on the intimacy between X and NP. Likewise, the appearance of a structural particle is due to analogy with genitive constructions and with the diachronic development of the structural particle. |