Prepositional Topic Markers"yige"and"nige"in Xinhua Dialect of Xiang Dialect
The paper describes the syntactic distribution of prepositional topic markers"yige"(一个)and"nige"(你个)in Xinhua dialect.It shows that,like the topic markers in Japanese,Korean and other languages,prepositional topic markers in Xinhua dialect do not have the occurrence con-straints on sentence types.According to grammaticalization theory,the paper holds that topic mark-ers"yige"and"nige"are derived from the demonstratives"yige"and"nige"respectively,so they are influenced by the phenomenon of"semantic retention".Due to the difference of time distance,space distance and psychological distance between the object of the topic and the speaker,"yige"and"nige"are obviously different in the occurrence and distribution.
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