广州话三字格词语研究

Three-Character Idioms in Cantonese

广州话里活跃着许多三字格惯用语。就语法功能而言，它们介于词和词组之间，可以充当句子成分。而其构成和语源则蕴含着浓郁的广东社会的地域和人文色彩；在语意和语用方面则大多表示贬义和讽刺的意味，颇具幽默、诙谐的特色。对比并分析的方言与普通话的异同，可以揭示出它们之间的联系和脉络。

There are quite a lot of three-character idioms playing an active role in Cantonese. Interms of grammatical function they form a category lying somewhere between wolds andphrases, and they can serve as sentence components, whereas, their word-building and etymology are markedly colored with Guangdong's regional culture. their philological andpragmatic connotation is focussed on satire shaded with humor and irony. A compare-contrastanalysis of the similarity and difference between cantonese and Putonghua (Mandarin) will reveal the inherent relations of the three-character idioms in Cantonese.