Author(s)

Cheng Xirong

Corresponding Author

Cheng Xirong

Abstract

The phenomenon of grammaticalization is an important phenomenon in the development of Chinese grammar. Gender markers in Chinese dialects have also undergone a process of evolution from real to imaginary. Compared with the grammaticalization of gender markers in northern dialects, the grammaticalization of gender markers in southern dialects is more obvious and the process is more complete. There are great differences in terms of words, word order and grammatical nature when expressing gender markers in Chinese southern dialects. Gender markers vary in degree of grammaticalization and grammatical connotation in different stages of development. The construction of natural discourse corpus of Chinese dialects is an important part of national language resources construction. It has been widely used in language teaching research, multilingual communication and information services, language recognition and speaker identification, oral cultural heritage and protection, etc. Based on the Chinese corpus, this paper analyses the phenomenon of gender labeling in Southern dialect monographs, and explores the mechanism and evolution of gender labeling.

Keywords

Vagueness; Dialects; Gender Markers; Corpus