Mysterious Strange Recorded Personal Pronouns

Legend develops to its peak in the middle of Tang Dynasty.Xuan Guai Lu is one of the most influential works among them.Though mainly written in ancient Chinese,some of the conversations in it are recorded in languages with some kind of oral style,even including some idioms,in order to truly reflect the speaking from Pronouns,especially person pronouns,appear frequently in these legendry works.By studying person pronouns in Xuan Guai Lu and comparing their usage with that in other works during the Tang Dynasty such as Dun Huang Bian Wen Ji,we may gain some understanding of the language features in Xuan Guai Lu.The person pronouns we are talk about in this paper include the first,second and third person pronouns.The third person pronouns only refers to the third part(only person)except the first person and the second person.Besides,some polite pronouns and honorific titles closely related to both person pronouns and their plural forms,appearing in this works will also be introduced in this paper.The grammatical functions of the person pronouns in Xuan Guai Lu are similar to those in the other documents in Tang Dynasty,such as Dun Huang Bian Wen Ji,yet the language in Xuan Guai Lu is of more ancient style.In Xuan Guai Lu,new person pronouns of Tang Dynasty either do not appear or not widely used,and the language seems to follow the ancient style.Among the first person pronouns,although the character "我" is not used so often as "吾", it had the grammatical functions of the latter.There are not obvious distinctions between them. Characters like "余" and "予" are less often used whereas some polite pronouns such as "某" and "仆" appear frequently.They have definite referents and comprehensive grammatical functions and the range of their referents has been enlarged."儿" and "妾" are dedicated to women,emerging period of the Wei Jin,the polite word "身" were useful,but it is limited in quantity and the usage is single."汝" and "尔" are the only two second person pronouns,of which "汝" is more common while the other is less used.A number of honorific titles are used in Xuan Guai Lu,such as "子", "君","公","郎".They have the same grammatical functions as "汝" and "尔",and have a wide range of definite referents.Yet the character "你" has not been used.The third person pronouns are still mainly "之" and "其".On the whole,their usage is similar to that of the ancient days,yet there are also changes in that they have become genuine third person pronouns with definite referents.Besides,"其" may be used as both subject or indirect object of sentences."他" appears as a new third person pronoun while "渠" has been used.There are three kinds of plural forms of person pronouns appearing,in Xuan Guai Lu, namely,the unmarked plural form,the person pronouns purls quantifier form,and the plural form indicated by using a word purls a suffix.Among them the third one is most often used. There are six suffixes,such as "侪","辈","等" and others,of which "等" appears most frequently while "辈" is not often used and there has not been an agreed norms about its usage.To a certain extent,the use of person pronouns in Xuan Guai Lu reflect the times in the author's life language,but may be related to the author's habit of using the word,with antique signs,a large proportion of the latter component.