The Comparative Auxiliary"Ye Si De"and its Evolution Process in Zhuohuai Dialect of Hebei Province
"Ye Si De"in Zhuohuai dialect of Hebei Province is an auxiliary meant for comparison.It has an ontologically-dependent feature,expressing the in-herent similarity between the tenor and vehicle.It has a negative inclina-tion,consistent across the Shanxi dialect regions.The Zhuohuai dialect has a special construction of"Bu VP Ye Si De",meaning"definitely will be like VP",in fact an epistemological construction."Ye Si De"is a comparative auxiliary formed in modern Chinese and a product of Mongolian language influence,which has a negative overtone implanted in Shanxi dialect regions and is an outcome of implied semantic conventionalization.In Zhuohuai of Hebei Province it further grew into the construction"Bu VP Ye Si De",considered a special grammatical incidence in the dialect.
Zhuohuai dialect of Hebei ProvinceShanxi dialectcomparative auxilia-ry"Ye Si De"
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