Western Inner Mongolia, Chinese Dialects Suffix Study

Western Inner Mongolia dialect has Massive rich content, type diverse affix. Especially suffix, not only the type are many but also has the local color extremely. The western dialect suffix is mainly the monosyllable suffix, mainly has the DA, BA, JiA, GE, HUO, WA, DUI, QI(LAI, BANG), LA(LIU), their majority is the verb suffix, and With single verb conjugations form neologisms. Only JIA, GE, QI(LAI, BANG) may add in the adverb, the pronoun, the adjective, the noun behind and constitutes the new word. These monosyllable suffix some word-formation ability is very good, some are quite weak, but the frequency of use is quite high in Inner Mongolia in the Midwest oral dialect.Western dialect also has the very rich multi-syllable suffix, they are mainly reduplicated suffix, two-syllable suffix and three syllable suffixes. They are basically the adjective suffixes, and word-formation ability is quite strong, use frequency is very high in the dialect. And the use of reduplicated suffix is the most frequent, in the western dialect exists massive state adjectives constituted by reduplicated suffix. In the western dialect, the two-syllable suffix mainly has four, such as DA DAN, MA PA, WU LAN, GE DAN. Three syllable suffixes mainly have BU YA CHA, BU LENG TENG, BU LENG DENG, BU LA TA, BU LENG ZHENG and so on. They are basically adjective suffix,add in a single syllable or two-syllable behind the root constitute adjective of four words lattice. Western dialect multi-syllable suffix has rich change, which causes the western dialect adjective to have the changeable form, rich sentimental color as well as strong oral color.In addition, western dialect has several special genus suffix morpheme, Mainly has ZHUAN, JIAN, ZHU, TUO. They attach after the verb stem and the adjective, and with verbs, adjectives constitute new dialect words. In addition, there is also a few genus reduplicated suffix, which is yet completely grammaticalization, includes certain lexical meaning. Based on the current usage, the western dialect these kind of genus suffixes will further grammaticalization, along with the language development and progress, and finally complete grammaticalization.In language long-term development evolution, as immigration, trade, cultural communication and other factors, cause each dialect mutual infiltration, to permeate mutually, to blend mutually. Eventually has formed Western Inner Mongolia dialect finally, which takes Shanxi, the Shanxi dialect as the foundation, and has their own characteristics in the form, pronunciation,meaning and so on. In addition, the western dialect retains a large number of Modern Chinese suffix. Under many factor combined actions, the western dialect suffix not only has the Jin dialect suffix general characteristics, also has own unique merit. Moreover, its quantity are many, the type is rich, the usage is also richly colorful.