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A Study of the Characteristics of ABB-Type Adjectives in Shaoxing Dialect

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2019)

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Shaoxing lies in the north of Zhejiang Province. The dialect of Shaoxing has an ancient pedigree and deep cultural connotation. There are abundant ABB adjectives in Shaoxing dialect, which are different from those in Mandarin. The previous scholars either compared this kind of adjectives with other forms of reduplicated words in the Wu dialect, or made a simple and closed description of its grammatical function and ways of word formation. There was no exploration from semantic aspects. This paper explains ABB adjectives in Shaoxing dialect from the aspects of phonetics, grammar and semantics, and uses ABB adjectives in Mandarin as a reference for comparative analysis to have a more complete description of the characteristics of ABB adjectives in Shaoxing dialect.

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    The tones of Shaoxing dialect proposed by Zhang [7] is adopted in this paper.

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This work is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, National Language Committee Research Program of China (No. ZDI135-42) and National Social Science Fund of China (No. 18CYY029).

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  1. Institute of Chinese Information Processing, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Bihua Wang, Yueming Du & Lijiao Yang

  2. Ultra Power-BNU Joint Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China

    Bihua Wang, Yueming Du & Lijiao Yang

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Wang, B., Du, Y., Yang, L. (2020). A Study of the Characteristics of ABB-Type Adjectives in Shaoxing Dialect. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_10

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