The Study Of Xingshiyan Quantifier

Xingshiyan(hereinafter referred to as Xing), written by the novelist Lu Renlong in Hangzhou in the late Ming Dynasty of Chongzhen period, is a collection of novels with vernacular Wu language. The quantifier system in the book presents the development of Chinese quantifiers in an important period of fusion. Moreover, since the book characterizes in vernacular Wu language, appearing many quantifiers featured in localism,it reflects language style in Jiangsu and Zhejiang area in the late Ming Dynasty, which is of great significance to study Chinese quantifiers. From the perspectives of comparing synchronic transverse and diachronic length in depth, this article exhaustively makes quantitative statistics of quantifiers appeared in Xing, and investigates the grammatical features of quantifiers, reflecting fundamentally overview of quantifiers in Xing.There are four chapters in this article. The first chapter is introduction, this part respectively expounds the idea of this research from three aspects--research value,research method and research object, summarizes the research situation of quantifiers since twentieth Century and the research status of morphology and grammar, and sums up the detailed classification of quantifiers in this paper through the previous discussion on the classification and definition of quantifiers. The second chapter divides quantifiers into noun quantifiers and verb quantifiers in detail. Furthermore, noun quantifiers include three categories of special noun quantifiers, borrowed noun quantifiers, and quasi quantifier, while verb quantifiers cover verb quantifiers with mutatis mutandis and borrowed verb quantifiers. Companied with transverse description, it lists weighing function and usage of quantifiers to analyze. The third chapter analyzes grammatical features of noun quantifiers and verb quantifiers from the word formation ability and sentence function in Xing, and expatiates special phenomena of quantifiers in overlapping forms, suffixes and composites. The fourth chapter has carried on the quantitative statistics of quantifiers in Xing. With the comparison and listing analysis of Modern Chinese Quantifier Usage Dictionary, it mirrors the preservation condition of quantifiers of Ming Dynasty in the quantifier system of modern Chinese and the change of weighing object.