英文摘要 |
In analyzing Chinese in terms of morphology and syntax, a question which often arises is: Is not Chinese all syntax? What morphological processes can be found in Chinese except in a very few relic forms which have no longer been active in all historical time? For example pairs like charng 長 'long' and jaang 長 'become long,-grow'; jonq 重 'heavy' and chorng 重 'repeated'; shyr 食 'eat' and syh 食 (or 飼) 'to give to eat', etc. are quite fossilized forms and one cannot make any general observation such as that causatives are formed by changing the Even Tone to the Going Tone. Or, again, the case differences between wu 吾 and woo 我, between eel 爾 and ruu 汝, as observed by Hu Shih and Karlgren, have not even been maintained since Han times, not to speak of their productiveness as morphological processes. |