The Resumptive Pronoun Yī(伊)in Hakka Dialect of Gutian Town,Liancheng County
This paper investigates the structure type and usage conditions of Yī(伊)sentence in Hakka Dia-lect of Gutian Town,Liancheng County,and analyzes the function of Yī(伊)from three usage occasions:impera-tive sentence,non-imperative sentence and special sentence without object.Due to semantic redundancy,the de-monstrative meaning of Yī(伊)is greatly weakened.Its role is generally equivalent to the modal words at the end of the sentence.Besides,in sentences without object,Yī(伊)has the functions of expressing subjective emotion,shifting focus,adjusting politeness and so on.The particularity of the applicable scope of resumptive pronoun Yī(伊)in Gutian dialect has certain typological meaning.