明清浙江、贵州契约文书字词比较举例

Examples of word comparison between ShiCang and Qingshuijiang contract documents during The Ming and Qing Dynasties

明清以来,浙江、贵州两地的契约文书,在文字、词汇方面,既有近代民间文书的一般性特征,又有各自的地域性和民族性特色。对清代浙江石仓契约、贵州清水江文书中“边-面”“托(讬)-请”“任-恁”等八组字词展开初步比较,发现两地契约文书的用字用词有各自的特色,这些差异的形成有些是受方言的影响,有些则是语言文字发展演变的结果。

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties,there were many similarities and differences from the contract documents between Zhejiang and Guizhou provinces.The words in these contracts not only have the general characteristics of modern folk documents,but also have their own regional and national characteristics.This paper makes a preliminary comparison between eight groups of words in ShiCang contracts and Qingshuijiang contract documents finding that the words in the two kinds of documents have their own characteristics.Some of these differences are influenced by dialects,while the others are the result of the development and evolution of language.