A Study On The Plural Forms Of Personal Pronouns In The Chinese Dialects

The number is one of important grammar categories in human language. Each language has its way to express the meaning of number. In Chinese the numeral expression has its distinctive quality, after the plural noun not necessarily appears the plural mark, but the plural mark in the personal pronoun system actually is correspondent strictly. The dialect can provide plentiful references for Chinese research and the numeral expressions as well as the quantity of the plural mark in Chinese dialectal personal pronoun are quite rich, therefore it has the vital significance to study Chinese plural pattern from the personal pronoun system of Chinese dialect, which may deepen the understanding to the question of Chinese plural pattern and promote the further study of pronoun system.This article has been divided into four big chapters:The first chapter introduction, mainly introduces the numeral pattern of Chinese, the research survey on the plural form of personal pronoun in Chinese dialect; the study content, the significance and the method of this article.The second chapter carries on the inspection and make the description of Chinese dialect personal pronoun on the certain breadth language material foundation; carries on the classification and the comparison to the plural form of personal pronoun. The plural form of personal pronoun in Chinese dialect can be divided into the marked and unmarked of two kinds, and of all the marked is put more importance to discuss.The third chapter analyzes the historical origin of main plural mark in the Chinese dialects.The fourth chapter discusses these questions: the emptiness to personal pronoun plural mark, the grammar position distribution of personal pronoun plural mark as well as its special function.