语言类型学视阈下的西北少数民族语言名词复数标记探析

Study of the Plural Markers of Nouns in the Northwest Minority Languages from the Perspective of Linguistic Typology

语言类型学是当代语言学的一门"显学"。一方面,它承担了跨语言比较和在比较中总结人类语言共性的任务。另一方面,就其根本理念而言,语言类型学不相信仅靠单一语言的深入发掘,就能洞悉人类语言的共性、本质或者说"普遍语法",因此致力于通过跨语言的观察比较来获得对人类语言共性的认识。本文通过对西北地区少数民族语言名词复数标记的整理,希望从中发现它们的共性,以及彼此的个性,从而加深我们对这一语法形式的认识和理解。

Linguistic typology is a prominent branch of contemporary linguistics. On the one hand,it undertakes the task of cross-linguistic comparison and summarizing the common features of human languages in comparison.On the other hand,as far as its fundamental idea is concerned,linguistic typology does not believe that it can understand the commonness,essence or "universal grammar" of human language only by exploring a single language in depth. Therefore,it is devoted to obtaining an understanding of the commonness of human language through cross-linguistic observation and comparison. In this paper,the plural markers of nouns in minority languages in Northwest China are sorted out in order to discover their commonness and their individuality,so as to deepen our understanding and understanding of this grammatical form.