Study on the Time-point Expressions in Hezhe Language

Abstract

: The time-point components in Hezhe language don’t only consist of time words and phrases without marks, but also those with various kinds of marking forms. Speaking from the syntactic level, the most basic function of the time-point components in Hezhe language is to act as adverbials in sentences. Moreover, they can also act as subjects, predicates, attributives, and in a few cases, some time-point components can also act as an object in the sentence. Analyzing from the semantic perspective, the time-point words and phrases in Hezhe language can either be definite and indefinite. The definite time points can determine the location as well as the time, which includes both absolute time points and relative time points.