佤语谐音词的构成及其使用特点

On Structure and Characteristics of Use of Homophonic Words of the Va Language

佤语谐音词的构成方式主要有两种:声母相同,变韵母;韵母相同或相似,变声母。从意义上看,谐音词是在词根词素的基础上表示"泛指、概称"等意义,同时还带有一些表卑的附加意义,谐音成分本身并不表示任何词汇意义。此外,形容词词素谐音词主要起强化作用,动词词素构成谐音词具有表名物意义的语法作用。谐音词在日常口语中通常连用,但在熟语、祭词等口传文学用语中,为了句式工整的需要,常常可以把词根词素和谐音成分拆开使用,但这并不改变谐音成分的依附性。

There are two main types of homophonic words in the Va language - that of the same in- itial consonant with different vowels and that of the same or similar vowel with different initial conso- nants. Judged from the sense, homophonic words express the ＂general term＂ based on the meaning of the root morpheme in addition to lowliness while the harmonics components do not have any meaning by themselves. Moreover, the adjective homophones mainly express reinforcement and verb homophonic has the grammatical function of nominalization. Always used together in the spoken language, homophonic words are usually used separately in the oral literary language does not change the dependence of harmonics components. for the sake of neatness. This, however,