海南闽语“枚”的来源与发展

The Origin and Development of the Classifier mo枚in Hainan Min Dialect

“枚”是海南闽语中一个特殊的量词,出现在数量结构和有定量名结构中,呈现出与普通量词不同的特点:“枚”作量词对名词的数目有限制;有定“枚+名”结构中,“枚”有两种不同的语音形式等。邻近临高话的量词■与海南闽语的“枚”语音形式、功能十分相近。本文先描写“枚”的用法,在此基础上将其与临高话的■进行比较,认为海南闽语的“枚”来源于与临高话的接触,而后发生了自变。

The morpheme mo枚is a distinctive classifier in Hainan Min dialect,appearing in the numeral-classifier construction and the definite classifier-noun construction.It displays characteristics different from regular classifiers,such as a restriction on the noun-modifying numeral collocating with it and two distinct phonetic forms when occurring in the definite mo-noun construction.The classifier mɔß8in the neighboring Lingao language is similar to mo in Hainan Min dialect both in phonetic forms and functions.This article first presents a diagnostic description of the morpheme mo,and then on that basis,compares it with the classifier ■ in Lingao.It proposes that the classifier mo in Hainan Min dialect results from the linguistic conctact of this dialect with the Lingao language,followed with subsequent evolution of this classifier in Hainan Min itself.