《闽都别记》的“会”字句

The auxiliary verb hui (会) in Mindu Bieji (闽都别记)

本文分析《闽都别记》中能性助动词"会"的语义,分为8类,认为至少其中3类是闽方言"解"的书面变形。并由此提出:从文献中观察到的某个虚字的功能扩张,不一定都是"语用-认知"引导的语法化发展,也有可能是方言接触的结果。

In light of its semantic and modal values and contexts where it occurs,the auxiliary verb hui(会)which expresses capability and possibility in Mindu Bieji(闽都别记)can be divided into eight subcategories.Based on the studies of hui(会)in other coeval texts produced by speakers of the Min dialect and the studies of the increasing use of hui(会)in Zhuzi Yulei(朱子语类)which also exhibits features of southern dialects,this paper suggests that at least three of the eight types of hui(会)in Mindu Bieji(闽都别记)are actually the written variants of the auxiliary verb hai(解)which used to have similar function for the expression of capability and possibility.This further implies that,instead of resulting from grammaticalization as induced by pragmatic and cognitive inference,functional extension of words can also be triggered by contact between dialects.