@article{ART002616787},
author={Jia Hao},
title={A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”},
journal={The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China},
issn={1738-0502},
year={2020},
number={57},
pages={29-50},
doi={10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jia Hao
TI - A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”
JO - The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
PY - 2020
VL - null
IS - 57
PB - Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
SP - 29
EP - 50
SN - 1738-0502
AB - This paper studies the modern Chinese demonstrative pronoun "Nen" from three aspects. First of all, on the origin of "Nen", this paper summarizes two kinds of etymologies in the academic circle, namely "Ning, Neng" origin theory which starts from the head consonant letter of "Nen", and another one which starts from the ending “-m” of "nen". Based on these two etymologies, this paper holds that the original origin of "Nen" is "Er" and it is a dialect word influenced by the southern language. Secondly, this paper focuses on the use of "Nen" alone and collates the syntactic functions of the commonly used "Nen" prefixes "Nen Me" and "Nen De".
It is concluded that "Nen" can be used as attributive before noun and noun group, adverbial before adjective and verb, also can be used as predicate and object, and also explained the reason why "Nen" is seldom used as subject. Finally, this paper analyzes the phenomenon that "Nen" indicates the uncertainty of distance, and thinks that "Nen" should not be regarded as a neutral demonstractive, but has the function of indicating first, and the distance semantics is based on the specific context and adds the neutral indicator. At the end of the paper, this paper points out that the case that the pronoun "Na" means the near distance and the pronoun "Zhe" means the far distance which is concluded that the deixis "Nen" has a high degree of separation from distance semantics.
KW - Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”;The Origin of “Nen”;Syntactic Environment of “Nen”;Distance meaning;Medial Demonstractive
DO - 10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002
ER -
Jia Hao. (2020). A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 57, 29-50.
Jia Hao. 2020, "A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”", The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, no.57, pp.29-50. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002
Jia Hao "A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China 57 pp.29-50 (2020) : 29.
Jia Hao. A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”. 2020; 57 : 29-50. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002
Jia Hao. "A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.57(2020) : 29-50.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002
Jia Hao. A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 57, 29-50. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002
Jia Hao. A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China. 2020; 57 29-50. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002
Jia Hao. A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”. 2020; 57 : 29-50. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002
Jia Hao. "A Study of the Chinese Neutral Demonstractive “Nen”" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.57(2020) : 29-50.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2020..57.002
