英语中类似「me dad」这种用法代表什么意思?
这种现象称为 possessive me[1],将 me 做物主代词使用,属于英国方言,一般是出自较没文化的工人阶级口中,但也可以用来表达戏谑、玩笑的意义[2, 3]。Possessive ‘me’ is a geographically diffuse and frequently occurring feature. Within the British Isles, for example, possessive ‘me’ is well-attested in the south-east and north-west of England, with dialect studies in these regions showing that speakers use this form with a frequency of between 30% and 45% [2]Y 在中古英语时期发音是 /i/,my 同 Lily,me 则类似 may。后来英语有一次“元音大推移”[4],发音才成了现代英语的样子,但这一推移可能在局部没有影响到方言。
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possessive_me
[2] http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/assets/documents/snell.pdf
[3] http://linguistics-research-digest.blogspot.de/2011/10/me-pencils-up-me-jumper.html
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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