A Study Into The Structure Of Chinese Northeast Dialect Verbs

The NE regional dialect of China is an extremely vast collection of unique linguisticexpressions. The greater portion of them are verbs which are both widely used and highlydescriptive of human actions. What is more, many of them convey meanings that have no singlecorresponding lexical meaning in Mandarin. Concerning local expressions of the NE dialectlinguist scholar Mr. Ma Changrong put its nicely,“Even if you can find in Mandarin a word withthe equivalent semantic meaning of the NE dialect word, you would be hard pressed to be able toconvey the NE dialects conciseness, congeniality, vividness and humor. The NE dialectsupplements special characteristics in meaning which Mandarin lacks.” In light of this, NEdialect verbs are certainly worthy of further attention and research. Much research entails topicsthat delve into NE dialect pronunciation features, adjective forms, or research on individual verbsand in so doing has made a sizeable contribution. However, with regard to verb peculiarities as awhole, verb classifications, and verb forms and their structure as well as how these forms producedifferences in shades of semantic meaning with Mandarin, there has yet been no in-depthcomprehensive study and interpretation. This article aims to show that NE dialect verbs are notjust some knock-off version of Mandarin verbs, but are a separate version endowed withsupplementary attributes and individuality. Although the two language systems are closelyrelated, NE dialect verbs not only are not corresponding forms of Mandarin verbs, but often areeven able to more succinctly and vividly describe action phenomenon than Mandarin verbs.