广州话A-Neg-A和A-Neg-B频率副词

“A-Neg-A”and“A-Neg-B”Types Adverbs of Frequency in Cantonese

广州话中存在一类频率副词,中间常带一个否定语素,根据形态特征可细分为A-Neg-A和A-Neg-B两类。基于构词及语义特征,本文分析认为这两类频率副词的构词机制不同:A-Neg-A由副词A(/AA)与Neg-A结合而形成;A-Neg-B由频率副词AB插入否定中缀而形成,其中否定中缀是A-Neg-A的否定语素类推的结果。历时性语料调查的结果验证了上述分析。

There is a class of frequency adverbs in Cantonese,often with a negative morpheme in the middle.According to their compositional pattern,this class of adverbs can be subdivided into two types,A-Neg-A and A-Neg-B.Based on their morphological and semantic features,this paper suggests that these two types of adverbs of frequency have different compositional mechanisms:A-Neg-A is formed by a combination of the adverb A(or AA)and the adverb Neg-A;while A-Neg-B is derived from the insertion of a negation suffix in the middle of the adverb of frequency AB,in which the negation suffix is the result of a morphological analogy of A-Neg-A.The findings of diachronic study are aline with our hypothesis.