略论清水江文书的词汇研究价值

清水江文书是迄今为止在中国西南地区发现数量最多的近代民间文书,其形成年代跨越近代汉语和现代汉语两个阶段,具有内容丰富、口语化强、真实可靠、数量庞大的语料特点,其词汇研究价值体现在四个方面:一是折射近代黔东南民族地区的特殊社会历史现象;二是反映早期黔东南汉语方言的词汇现象;三是记录早期黔东南地区的语言接触事实;四是出现一批清末民国时期的新词新义。

On the Lexical Research Value of Qingshui River Documents

Qingshui River documents are by far the most numerous modern folk documents found in southwest China,and the formation period spans two stages of modern Chinese and contemporary Chinese.The corpus of Qingshui River documents were characterized by rich in content,colloquialism,authenticity and huge quantity.The lexical research values of Qingshui River documents are reflected in the following aspects:reflecting the special social historical phenomenon of modern ethnic regions in southeast Guizhou province;reflecting the lexical phenomenon of early Chinese dialects in southeast Guizhou province;recording the early fact of language contacts in the southeast Guizhou province;appearing some new expressions and meanings during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period.