Reduplication Words in the Hechuan Dialect for Diminutive
The Chongqing Hechuan dialect belongs to the Southwestern Mandarin of Chuanqian piece of the Chengdu-Chongqing dialect,which has many types of diminutives.The main functions of these forms have their own focus,but they all can express smallness and show love.The main functions of reduplication are transferring the meaning,parts of speech,and forming words,and the meaning of small claims is manifested in two aspects:first,the number of reduplication words with diminutive is small,and the function of expressing smallness is weak.Second,almost all of the reduplication words have semantic colors such as fondness,flirtation,or ease and casualness,and so on.At a certain time in the past,reduplication should be the main mean of diminutive for the bisyllabic words of Hechuan dialect,and it appeared at an earlier level.
Hechuan dialectreduplicationdiminutiveshow lovesemantic functionsuffix"er(儿)"reduplication with er diminutive
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