A Study of the Characteristics of ABB-Type Adjectives in Shaoxing Dialect

摘要

Shaoxing lies in the north of Zhejiang Province. The dialect of Shaoxing has an ancient pedigree and deep cultural connotation. There are abundant ABB adjectives in Shaoxing dialect, which are different from those in Mandarin. The previous scholars either compared this kind of adjectives with other forms of reduplicated words in the Wu dialect, or made a simple and closed description of its grammatical function and ways of word formation. There was no exploration from semantic aspects. This paper explains ABB adjectives in Shaoxing dialect from the aspects of phonetics, grammar and semantics, and uses ABB adjectives in Mandarin as a reference for comparative analysis to have a more complete description of the characteristics of ABB adjectives in Shaoxing dialect.