从侗台语的平行例证看古汉语“夫”第三人称代词用法的来源——类别词系列研究之一

HE Yan-cheng,LI Gui-fang,On the Origin of the Third Person Pronoun Usage offu夫in Archaic Chinese with Parallel Evidence from Tai-Kadai Languages

学界普遍认为,古汉语“夫”第三人称代词用法来源于指示代词。借鉴与汉语有悠久接触历史和诸多共同区域类型特征的侗台语以及苗瑶语等周边少数民族语言的平行现象,本文认为古汉语“夫”第三人称代词用法很可能来源于“成年男子”义名词。本文进一步指出,第三人称代词来源于指人名词其实是一条跨语言可见的演变路径。

The common view among the circle holds that the use of fu(夫)as a third person pronoun in Archaic Chinese derives from its demonstrative pronoun usage.With parallel phenomenon from Tai-Kadai as well as Miao-Yao languages,the typical neighbouring languages with a long history of contact and sharing much common areal features with Chinese,the paper claims that the third person pronoun usage of fu in archaic Chinese may be traced back toits noun usage meaning‘adult man'.The paper further suggests that third person pronouns developing from people nouns is in fact a common cross-linguistically attested grammaticalization path.