A Study On "Erhua"(儿化) In Chinese

"Erhua"(儿化) is a kind of important language phenomenon in Chinese.There are plenty of researches on it. In the last several decades, many scholarshave defined the grammatical nature and function of "Erhua"(儿化), however,until now, they have reached no consensus. And they didn't explore the causeand mechanisms of the development of"Erhua"(儿化) further. It results that wedon't have a historical, total realization, and can't grasp the essential feature of"Erhua"(儿化).Depending on the two basic study methods: fieldwork and comparison,this paper discusses the types of the structure, the historical developmentprocess and the development mechanisms of the function of "Erhua"(儿化) inChinese diachronically and dialectological, based on the related theory oflinguistics and the regulation of cognitive. This paper tries to expound theorigin and the later development of "Erhua"(儿化) systematically.This paper includes the following parts: the definition of "Erhua"(儿化) inChinese, the evolvement mechanism of the pronunciation of "Er" (儿), thephonetic type of "Erhua"(儿化) in Chinese, the grammaticalization of"Er" (儿)in Chinese, and the form and development of "Erhua"(儿化) in Chinese.