"song Book" Pronoun Study

The thesis focuses on the pronouns of SongShu written by Shen Yue in Liang Dynasty. This paper uses statistic analyses to trim the pronoun system of SongShu and to investigate the usage and source of some important pronouns from diachronic and synchronic perspective.The first person pronoun in SongShu: Wo(我) hasn't had declension as in ancient Chinese. Wu (吾) appeared only in written language but replaced by Wo (我) in spoken language at that time. Shen (身) flourished in the middle classical period but after that it disappeared gradually.The second person pronoun in SongShu: Ru (汝) was used as subject, object and attribute. Er (尔) distributes in written language such as Zhao (诏),Ce (策),Biao (表),Shu (书),Wen (文) and Fu (赋) and it is used as demonstrative pronoun. This article thinks that the Er (尔) in SongShu is the imitation of its classical usage.The third person pronoun in SongShu: Qi (其) functions as subject, object, attribute, and attribute is its main usage. Zhi (之) mostly functions as object, but it can be used as attribute, which is an important progress of Zhi (之) in middle classical Chinese. Up to the middle classical Chinese, the function as a third person pronoun of bi (彼) has become mature.The self-referential pronouns in SongShu: Zi (自),Ji (身),Shen (身),Wushen (吾身).The demonstrative pronouns in SongShu: Ci (此) is the most-frequent proximal pronoun. The function as proximal pronoun of Shi (是) has declined and it has become a mature copula.Xu (许) and Ningxin (宁馨) are new demonstratives appearing in middle classical Chinese. Bi (彼) is the distal pronoun which remain the same usage as Classical Chinese.Pronouns having proximal and distal meaning concurrently: Zhi (之) and Qi (其).Predicative demonstrtives: Ran (然) remains the same function from the classical to the middle classical. Er (尔) is not used as demonstratives in Pre-qin Chinese, but develops into a mature predicative demonstrtives.Other-referential pronouns: Bie (别) and Pang (旁) functions mainly as attributive. Ta (他) which means others often used as attributive and object.Interrogative Pronoun: He(何) is a very active pronoun in SongShu which is highly frequent and usually form fossilized structure with other language elements. Shui (谁) is another popular pronoun which is used to question person.