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Cross-level Coordination Movement in Languages: A Case Study of Retroflex Suffixation in the Dialects to the East of Beijing

  • The Journal of Chinese Cultural Studies
  • 2019, (46), pp.265-288
  • DOI : 10.18212/cccs.2019..46.011
  • Publisher : The Society For Chinese Cultural Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature > Chinese Literature > Chinese Culture
  • Received : October 16, 2019
  • Accepted : November 11, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

Ai, Yifang 1

1澳门理工学院

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ABSTRACT

This paper studies the special performances of the retroflex suffixation in the dialects to the east of Beijing. According to the coordination theory proposed by Chen Baoya (1990 & 2015), the study found that there is a strong connection between the special retroflex suffixation and the phonological structure of the dialects of that area. Then it is proved that languages are under coordination movements through different levels, like the phonological and the morphemic levels. So this study complemented new materials and viewpoints to the cross-level coordination theory. And in the dialects of this area, two waves of morpheme function changes are involved in their retroflex suffixation, which makes the most special points of the phenomenon under discussion. It showed great correlations between language structure and language change.

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