JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2006, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (4): 81-83.

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Research of Special Pronoun Mo in Huanggang Dialect

TONG Jian   

  1. School of Humanities, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046,China
  • Received:2006-04-02 Online:2006-08-01 Published:2013-12-16

Abstract: There are two patterns of mo after the word jiao. One is the pattern of “jiao+subject+mo”, where mo can replace a predicate verb, or a predicate verb plus its object or its compound sentence, and the other is the pattern of “jiao+mo”, in which mo can replace a subject, a predicate verb and an object. Without jiao, mo is devoid of its replacement function. If mo is complemented by a part of the replacing object, the content of replacement will be changed. If the complement is the whole of the replacement, mo thereby becomes a modal auxiliary used for emphasis. The special pronoun mo in Huanggang dialect is a succession and development of the indefinite pronoun mo in ancient Chinese.

Key words: Tuanfeng dialect, special pronoun, mo

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