Two Sharing Features of the Grammatical Area in South Central Guangxi
The Chinese and Zhuang languages in South Central Guangxi share two grammatical features.One is that reduplication of classifier expresses free reference,and the other one is that the word"对''meaning CORRECT has two functions,namely as existential verb first and as location/time preposition second.The model language of the two features is Zhuang,and Chinese replicates its grammatical functions.The first shared feature evolved from the following structure:V1+CL+where,CL+that+V2＞V1+CL,CL+V2＞V1+CL+CL+V2,triggered by the context of five-char-acter Zhuang ballads.The origin of the second shared feature is that the Zhuang people realized that their"V+te(:)ŋ1"corresponded to the Mandarin's"V+对 dui,"deducing that Zhuang"te(:)ŋ1"was e-quivalent to Mandarin"对dui."They then analogized the Zhuang"te(:)ŋ1+N"structure to the Zhuang-style Mandarin"对dui+N."As the Zhuang-style Mandarin"对 dui+N"expanded in Yizhou manda-rin,"对dui"acquired the functions of an existential verb and a location/time preposition.
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