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• Forms ancestral to the plural suffix men (used in almost all Mandarin dialects as well as in the standard language) do not appear in this form until the Song dynasty. There are several theories about the origin of this suffix; the most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that it is in origin a fusion of mei 'each, every' and ren 'person'. Although such a disyllabic form apparently does not occur textually, Yuan dynasty texts employ mei alone as a plural suffix to pronouns. The fact that it is restricted to pronominal forms and human nouns also supports this hypothesis (查看原文)

  晚晚 2013-08-10 13:06:55

• 中國人在很長一段時間內，顯然對口語不感興趣，尤其是語言變化特別顯著的地方，這就不難明白，為什麼他們把從語言學的角度那麼不同的語言形式看作是同一種語言。 (查看原文)

  言葉 2013-09-17 21:59:16

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