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Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Comparative Constructions in Taiwan Southern Min: A Preliminary Report
台湾闽南语比较式的社会语言学相关面貌初探
Chinfa Lien 连金发
Abstract 摘要
This paper is a preliminary report on sociolinguistic dimensions of comparative constructions in Taiwan Southern Min focusing on the correlation of lexical and grammatical aspects of comparative constructions with social variables. The linguistic types to be correlated include (1) the three tonal variants of the word 比, and (2) four comparative sentence patterns. We will examine in quantitative terms the correlation between the two types of linguistic behavior and social dimensions such as age, education, sex and place of origin. Issues of contact-induced change are also touched on.