The ‘I bǎ you (this/that) + NP’ sentence pattern in modern Chinese, represented by the novel Journey to the West, has always been a hot topic in academic research. The various explanations made by predecessors from grammatical perspectives cannot well answer the reasons why this patttern only appears in the abusive context, nor are they in line with the pursuit of natural language habits in oral expressions. From the perspective of dialects and slangs, especially the commonly seen cases in modern dialect areas such as Wuhan and Yimeng, combining the process of writing Journey to the West and the source of language materials of which, interpreting ‘bǎ’ as a abusive word in folk vulgar language not only answers the unsolved questions, but also makes the ‘bǎ’ clause sentences more appropriate, natural and reasonable. With the development of language, the emotional color of the abusive word “ba” for scolding gradually weakened, eventually becoming a common pet-phrase in vulgar oral language.
P’yohaerok was written by the order of King Sŏngjong in June 1488. It is one of the most important drifting records to China in the Ming era, which was published in six different printed versions in the Chosŏn period. There are two sets of versions, each of which is comprised of three. One is in Toyo Bunko, Yomei Bunko, and Kanazawa Bunko, all of which had been printed before Hideyoshi’s Invasion of Chosŏn in 1592. The other printed and published as a part of Kŭmnamjip after the Invasion has been available in South Korea. P’yohaerok is really an excellent work. For not only does it possess an important historical value of the Ming Dynasty but also allows us to discover a variety of linguistic data and phenomena such as nonstandard forms of characters, vocabulary, grammar and phonemes of native languages in the Ming era, etc. From the perspective of linguistic discourse, the author makes a detailed analysis of the Modern Chinese Linguistics of the work.
This thesis is the study about factors and types that the exceptional forms of Sanyinci. Above all, the reasons that exceptional forms increase are as follows. About the manner of speech, first as aristocratic manner turned into a worldly. And then the pronunciation used the themselves while they translated foreign language by sounds. Finally the sound of language became simplified.