| The suffix "tou" in Ningbo dialect frequently appear in everyday speech of Ningbo, itsusing scope is more wider than in mandarin. The role of suffix "tou" in Ningbo dialect ismarking the parts of speech, it is mainly used to mark nouns, adjectives, adverbs, quantifiers.The noun can often modifies the noun directly, constituting a phrase or compound nouns,which means "tou" can be used as attributive modifying a noun, and between the two nounsdo not need "ge" for the connection. The adjectives in a sentence to act as attributive andpredicate; when act as attributive, it used to modify nouns, its location does not necessarilyput in front of the noun. Semantically, it used to indicate the nature, characteristics and statusof the things; Adverbs can be used to modify predicates, noun phrases and terms subjects, andalso modify the whole sentence; At the same time, the general location of the adverb is at thebeginning or the end of the sentence. Quantifier plus the suffix "tou" to form nouns, suchsyntactic features are also similar to common nouns, in the sentence it used as subject, object,attribute and adverbial.Words with the suffix of "tou" in Ningbo dialect has more local characteristics thanmandarin. |
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