对湖南江华官话中“崽”字的考察

A Study of ＂zai＂ （ 崽 ） in Jianghua Mandarin

江华官话“崽”字的使用分两类,一类是作实词,表示“小孩、儿子”之意;另一类是作词缀,表示小称。拿江华官话与长沙话（新派）的“崽”字作比较,无论是从使用范围看,还是从虚化程度看,江华官话都比长沙话要大要深。江华官话“崽”字的虚化既有词义引申中的联想的原因,又有语言的补偿功能的作用。

＂Zai＂ （崽） in Jianghua Mandarin has two meanings： one means ＂child＂or ＂ son＂as a notional word, the other expresses diminutives as an affix. Compared to ＂Zai＂ in Changsha dialect, ＂zai＂ in Jianghua Mandarin covers a wider range of uses and has a deeper degree of grammalization, which is the resulf of the association of the word meaning and the influence of the complementary function of the language.