Keywords
suffix
‘sheng’(生)
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Accepted 2025-02-16
Published 2025-04-28
Abstract
The suffix ‘sheng’(生) has been the subject of extensive research in early modern Chinese; however, its use in regional dialects has received comparatively little scholarly attention. In the Sichuan dialect, the suffix ‘sheng’ exhibits related usage, functioning primarily as an adjectival suffix, adverbial suffix, and nominal suffix at the synchronic level, with distinct grammatical roles and semantic features. From a diachronic perspective, the suffix ‘sheng’ in the Sichuan dialect is hypothesized to have originated during the Tang Dynasty.
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