HISTORICAL ETHNO-CULTURAL COGNITIVE BASIS OF PLURAL FORMATION IN MODERN CHINESE AS A MORPHOLOGICAL INDICATOR

Abstract

Abstract. The presence of the suffix “们”, which means the plural of the category of quantity in Chinese as a morphological indicator, was not  unnoticed by the researchers of the Chinese language as a special phenomenon in the Chinese language. However, it still requires a comprehensive study. In Chinese, the suffix “们” means plural. But this is not a general phenomenon, but also a  plural grammatical meaning that comes only after pronouns and nouns denoting a person. Linguistic scholars have given various arguments and drawn conclusions about how it was formed as  unique  phenomenon for the Chinese language, the words of which do not undergo personal changes.

          This article examines the historical ethno-cultural cognitive formation of the suffix “们”, which means the plural in modern Chinese, as a grammatical feature. In addition, considering the diachronically plural pronouns in Chinese, the author tried to prove the connection between the formation of the suffix “们” and the hieroglyph “门Mén” by analyzing the process of transition “们” to the suffix, which has a plural grammatical meaning.

      The formation of the suffix 们Men in Chinese as a grammatical feature used in the plural is directly related to the variable meaning of the hieroglyph 门Mén  (door), which is part of the concept of culture, which provides data from the ethnic culture of the Chinese nation (family, dynasty). At the same time, according to the internal laws of Chinese characters, the inclusion of the人 (human) “human” key “亻” in it is a phenomenon that corresponds to the laws of the Chinese character. According to the internal laws of the Chinese language, even with a structural syntactic examination, one can notice that over time, the defining component function in such words as 门, 我门   began to change into the function of a suffix that gives the word a plural grammatical meaning, went through the process of transition to a grammatical character.