Reduplication Structure of AA Nouns in Chongqing Dialect
A corpus of Chongqing dialect AA nouns is constructed using dialect literature,research monographs,and Chongqing dialect TV dramas as corpus sources.It is found that Chongqing dialect AA nouns have their own distinctive features.Firstly,there is a rich variety of base-form lexical categories,including monosyllabic nouns,adjectives,verbs and quantifiers,all of which can form AA-form nouns through reduplication.Secondly,AA nouns in Chongqing dialect is not only lexical reduplication but also morphological reduplication.Thirdly,AA-type overlapping structures whose base form is a noun are the most common,showing a strong word-building ability.Finally,the use of AA overlapping structures in Chongqing dialect stems from the long-term linguistic evolution,and its vocabulary will keep changing with the dialect.