摘要
四音格词是布赓语中一类重要的语言单位.从形式类型看,布赓语的四音格词有 ABAC、AABB、ABCB、ABCC、ABCD、AB AB、AABC 等 7 种;从韵律特征看,重叠是四音格词韵律和谐的主要因素;从构成方式看,主要有重叠、复合、派生3类;从语法意义看,主要表程度的加深、动作的反复以及遍指;从句法功能看,能充当多种句法成分.布赓语与其他南亚语的四音格词有着诸多相似之处,也存在一定的差异.整体来看,布赓语四音格词呈现出逐渐增多的趋势,这可能与其语言结构的发展以及从汉语等语言借贷有关.
Abstract
Tetrasyllabic words consist of an important linguistic unit in the Bugeng language.From the perspective of formal types,the tetrasyllabic words can be classified into seven types:ABAC,AABB,ABCB,ABCC,ABCD,ABAB,and AABC.In terms of prosodic features,the prosodic harmony of tetrasyllabic words is mainly brought over by reduplication.From the perspective of structural composition,the tetrasyllabic words are formed mainly in three ways:reduplication,root-plus-root compounding,and affixation.From the perspective of grammatical meaning,they mainly express emphasis,repetition of action,and distributive meaning.From the perspective of syntactic functions,they can function as various syntactic constituents.Tetrasyllabic words in the Bugeng language have many similarities with those in other Austroasiatic languages,but there are also some differences.Overall,tetrasyllabic words in the Bugeng language show a trend of gradual increasing in number,which may be related to the development of its own language structure and to its borrowing from languages such as Chinese.