Study On Affixes In A Dream Of Red Mansions

Along with the trend of Chinese disyllabization, the role of Affix has become more apparent, and the resulting affixation became an important word-building in Chinese. Compared with the Western languages, most Chinese Affixes have produced form verbal works, such as Zen sayings, vernacular fiction, or developed enriched in these works. So colloquialization is one of the typical characteristics of Chinese Affix, which will be leavened by dialects, cognitive patterns of the whole community and habits of individual words, it also shows that most of the vocabulary that created through affixation is not the mainstream of Chinese vocabulary.A Dream of Red Mansions, which reflects the northern dialect of the 18th century language features and the local language and customs at that time, is a vernacular novel written with Beijing dialect. And that Affix is used for word-building largely is one of the characteristics of this works. Because Beijing dialect is the basis of modern Mandarin, it can be said that the various characteristics of Affix and word formation in A Dream of Red Mansions, represents the state of Affix in modern Chinese basically. There is the certain universality. At the same time, because of age restrictions, geographical, Affix in A Dream of Red Mansions has its own characteristics, there is the particularity.On the basis of exhaustive statistic, the paper depicts and analyzes the Affixes of A Dream of Red Mansions in a synchronic perspective; discusses the characteristics of Affix word formation combining the Chinese affixation; anatomizes the most commonly used and most important Affix "Zi" and "Er" in A Dream of Red Mansions deeply; and expounds the differences due to the change between the former 80 to the latter 40 about the Affix in the diachronic angle.