对语气词“那”中古用例的语文学讨论

Philological Verification of Example Sentences as the Evidence of Existence of So-called Mood Particle Na(那) in Middle Chinese

为了证明语气词"那"在中古已经产生,学术界近二十年陆续找出一些新的用例。利用语文学的方法考察这些用例,发现绝大多数都不能成立。这些"那"有的是错字,有的是语气词"耶"的形误字,有的则是动词或疑问词"奈"的通假字。

For the sake of supporting the traditional knowledge that the mood particle Na（那） had used in Middle Chinese already, 7 new example sentences have been reported from the 1990th. This paper verifies/testifies these examples philologically and finds that almost all are false. Some of them are actually mood particle Ye（耶）, and some are verb or interrogative pronoun Nai（奈）.