从《战国纵横家书》看古汉语第一人称代词

First person pronouns in Old Chinese:A Study of the Zhanguo Zonghengjia Shu

汉语发生了类型上的转变。上古汉语曾经有过形态,在同时使用'我'和'吾'的地区,二者有'格位'的区别。格位表现和格语言,从共时观点看,是两个不同的概念;从历时观点看,可以说是一个连续体在不同历史时期的不同表现。现代某些形态丰富的语言都显示出,一个非格语言,代词系统可以有格标记或格位的痕迹。

The Chinese language has undergone typological change.Old Chinese had morphology.The first person pronouns’wo’and’wu’were case sensitive when they co-occurred in the same text(sentences).Case sensibility and case language are distinct concepts,synchronically speaking.From diachronic point of view however,they constitute a continuum across different historic periods.Based on some languages with a rich morphology,we see that what is considered a non case language may have case marks or traces of case in its pronoun system.