英山话的“了[liau^(34)]”字句

On Sentences with "了[liau^(34)]" in Yingshan Dialect

"了"在英山话中有一种较为普遍的用法,即重读作[liau^(34)],附于句子末尾或出现在句中,常用于对答句,表达已然义。本文从"了[liau^(34)]"构成的句式入手,并与相关句式进行比较,分析其构成条件、语法意义和使用价值。从英山话"了[liau^(34)]"的使用及其作用看,它应该被视作一个焦点标记词。

In Yingshan dialect the auxiliary '了' is in the neutral tone 'lia',which can be further divided into '了_1' and '了_2' as those in standard Chinese.'了' can also be pronounced as the stressed [liau^(34)] in Yingshan dialect,which appears at the end or in the middle of a sentence and is used in question-answer to denote perfectness.From the construction of the sentence pattern of '了[liau^(34)]' and the comparison with other relative sentence patterns, the condition of the construction,grammatical meaning and pragmatic value are analyzed. The paper holds that '了[liau^(34)]' should be treated as a marker of focus.