Northern Mandarin dialects and grammatical studies on Standard Chinese: three case studies
北方方言和现代汉语语法研究: 从几个具体的事例谈起
Résumé
This paper discusses three frequent grammatical patterns (the potential form of resultative compounds [Verb-DE-Resultative], progressive aspect marker ZAI, and the locative pattern [V-ZAI + locative NP]) and their variation in Standard Mandarin and in non-standard Mandarin varieties. Through these three case studies, we aim at showing that an in-depth description and analysis of Northern Mandarin dialects is crucial for our understanding of the grammatical system of Standard Chinese.
文章以三个普通话中常用的语法格式为例(“拿得动”一类的可能式、进行体标记“在”和表示持续状态的[动词+在+处所]句式)证实,北方诸方言的语法描述和分析可以作为促进“现代汉语语法研究”的一个重要动力。