本文以明代初期的會話書《老乞大諺解》和《朴通事諺解》為觀察語料，它們反映了14世紀北方官話的口語。筆者透過兩書來觀察明初小稱詞「子」和「兒」的語法化現象，初步發現「子」和「兒」在語義、語音、構詞、語用、語法、能產力方面，呈現了許多差異。

The purpose of this study is to explore grammaticalization of diminutive suffixes “Zi” and “Er” in the early Min Dynasty. The observed text is two conversational books: “Lau-Qi-Da Yan Jie” and “Pu-Tong-Shi Yan Jie”. The text provides valuable information on the 14th-century colloquial Northern Chinese language, called the Haner language (漢兒言語). The author concentrates on the following issues: meaning, phonetics, morphemics, pragmatics, syntax, productivity. It was found from the result that “Zi” and “Er” are very diffent in six issues.

老乞大諺解、朴通事諺解、小稱詞、後綴、語法化

Lau-Qi-Da Yan Jie, Pu-Tong-Shi Yan Jie, diminutive suffixes, suffix, grammaticalization